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THE ADVOCATE. WE CHEERFULLY PUBLISH ALL CRISP NEWS NOTES FROM ALL SECTIONS. VOLUME XII. OF HIS ATTITUDE TOWARD NATIONAL AND STATE TICKETS GIVEN TO PUBLIC. But Disapproves the Methods by Which National Ticket was Named and Scor's Those who Criticise Regularity of Third Party Men. In a statement issued Monday, Governor Glasscock declared that so far as he is concerned he will support the state, congressional and local candidates and that he would do this in co-operation with the regular Republican organization, but that since many do not believe in and disapprove the means and methods used to name the nominees of the Republican national convention at Chicago, he shares with them in their belief and disapproval. By his statement Governor Glasscock proposes to support Colonel Theodore Roosevelt if he is nominated at Chicago on August 5, instead of President Taft, but will support the remainder of the Republican ticket as heretofore named. The governor replies to those Republicans who seek to read out the party men who decline to support president Taft, by asking by what authority do they say who are Republicans and who are not? In his statement, which has been expected for some time, Governor Glasscock points out many of the things the Republican party has accomplished in West Virginia, and also what he believes would result if the Democrats should be the victors in November next. He also entertains the hope that if a third party is organized it will endorse the electoral, state, congressional and local candidates, and believes that no friend of these candidates who comprehends the calamity that would follow a Democratic victory in the state from a Republican viewpoint, can object to such action. The governor's statement in full is as follows: Glasscock's Statement. Glasscock's statement. "The Republican party of West Virginia has a record of which it can be proud. It has in it now, as in the past, men who have sacrificed much in order that the party might serve the people and work out for them problems which meant much for their welfare and happiness. "The history of the state under Republican administrations is the record of the establishment and growth of our free school system; the creation of most of our state institutions; the equalization of taxes; the just shifting of burdens that were unjustly borne by the poor to the shoulders of those who were more able to bear them; the inauguration of a system of accounting that has probably done more to correct evils of long standing and create a general moral uplift than any legislation that has been enacted in the history of the state. And many other things that time and space fall me to mention. Our party has not always been prompt in the fulfillment of all of its promises, but it has done more in some respects than it agreed to do. When the Republican party passed the law that makes it imperative that every public officer shall honestly account for every dollar of the public funds received by him, under penalty, of fine and imprisonment, it corrected an abuse that existed during the twenty-five years of rule of the Democratic party in this state, and under which Democratic office-holders profited at the expense of the taxpayers. An Achievement. "Another eminent achievement of the Republican party was the creation of the state board of control, whereby a host of offices were abolished and many thousands of dollars of money saved, at the same time increasing the efficiency of the public institutions, and taking them out of partisan politics. This and other achievements of the Republican party have enabled the board of public works to reduce the state levy from thirty-five cents to one cent., and at the same time give back to the people in the counties for their free schools alone more money than ever received before. "These are not all of the many wise and beneficient things that the party of Lincoln, Grant, Blaine and McKinley has done for the people of this THE ADVOCATE. First District Sunday S. Union Holds Third Semi-Annual Meeting, Discusses Interesting Topics and Hears Encouraging Reports From Officers. Nickells Mills, July 23.—The third semi-annual session of the First District Sunday School Union was held here Saturday and Sunday with the Brushy Ridge Baptist Sunday School. An unusually large number of people turned out for this occasion. Those coming from Alderson Fort Springs and Ronceverte added much to the business of the livery men at these points. At 2:30 Saturday evening President Rev. Howard White called the meeting to order with the usual devotional. Mrs. Mary L. Franklin, of Fort Springs, opened the discussion on "The Benefit of the Sunday School to the Community." The topic was further discussed by B. F. Watkins, Rush Curry and Rev. Howard White. Miss Mary Curry was introduced, who read the letter of welcome in which the delegation was assured that the Sunday School and citizens generally would do all in their power to make the session a success. B. F. Watkins responded to the address, stating that all that had been done was very highly appreciated and that the privileges granted would not be abused. At 7:30 in the evening Rev. Howard White preached a good sermon to a large audience which was enjoyed by all. A very encouraging letter was received from A. P. Straughter, president of the West Virginia Baptist Sunday School Convention, explaining the cause of his absence. At 9:30 Sunday morning an interesting Sunday service was conducted by State Superintendent of Missions, Rev. J. J. Turner. The class work in the three departments was in charge of Rev. Howard White, Mrs. Mary L. Franklin and Mrs. Mary Proctor. Rev. Turner brought out the facts in the lesson in a manner that appealed to all who were so fortunate as to be present. Rev. E. W. Hester preached an interesting sermon at 11 o'clock. At 2 o'clock in he afternoon Mrs. Mary L. Franklin read a well prepared paper on "The Sunday School Teacher," which was followed by an address on "Teacher Training," by Rev. Turner, who is striving hard to raise the standard of Sunday School teaching in the state. Rush Curry read a strong report on educatica. B. F. Watkins read the report on Temperance. The Foreign Mission report was read by J. M. Trice and the State Mission Report was read by Mrs. Mary L. Franklin. The most interesting part of the program was an address on "Child Study," by Frank Peck. He handled the subject psychologically, still he made it so plain that it was received beneficially and enjoyably, giving all a better idea of child life. The meeting was closed by a very interesting sermon by Rev. J. J. Turner, on the "Use of the Sabbath." There was never a meeting in this community that carried with it the interest and benefit to the people as this union meeting. The work done in it will be the subject of conversation for years to come. The following were elected as officers: President, Rev. Howard White; vice president, Mrs. Mary L. Franklin; clerk, Rush Curry; corresponding secretary, G. B. Cousins; treasurer, J. M. Trice; executive committee, B. F. Watkins, S. P. Penicks and Hugh Green. All That Is Needed To Kill Fight Pictures in America. Washington, July 19.—Prize fight moving pictures today became a thing of the past in the United States when the House passed a Senate bill prohibiting the transportation of such moving picture films between various states and territories or from foreign countries. Heavy fines for violation of the proposed law are fixed by the bill. The President, said to be in complete sympathy with the legislation, is expected to affix his signature to the measure. Southern members of Congress were especially interested in the proposed law, because of the race feeling stirred up by the exhibition of the Jeffries-Johnson moving pictures in their section of the country. Senator Simmons, of North Carolina, and Representative Sims, of Tennessee, pressed the bill in the Senate and House. IN WEST VIRGINIA GIVES PRESI DENT TAFT AND THE REGU- LARS MUCH CONCERN Fear Double Cross White House is Reported to Have Received Intelligence Leading to the B- belief that National Ticket Will be "Sold Out." Washington, July 24.—One of the most recent visitors of the White House has been Col. Isaac T. Mann, of Mercer county, who is regarded as one of the leaders of the Taft cause in West Virginia, and was originally selected to have charge of the Taft campaign for the nomination in that state. It is understood that Colonel Mann was present for the purpose of discussing with the President and his new secretary, Carmi Thompson, the political situation in West Virginia and especially what seems to have been a complete desertion of Taft by the political managers in that state in the interest of the candidates for state officers and members of Congress. Taft "Sold Out." There seems to be every indication that President Taft has been deliberately sold out by the state and congressional candidates in West Virginia who hope to be the beneficiaries of the sale. There is much evidence tending to show that such a deal has been made and that it will be entered into by the leaders not only of the Republican party but of the Roosevelt party as well. First of all the Governor's statement would indicate that he will not only support the Republican state ticket as at present constituted and the Roosevelt electors but it urged all other Republicans in the state as well as the followers of the Bull Moose party to do the same. The Republican state committee at its recent meeting at Parkersburg made one move toward getting the Roosevelt candidate for electors off the Republican ticket or substituting Republicans for them. This was all the more noteworthy because the last act of the retiring state committee was to instruct its chairman to ascertain the sentiment of the candidates for electors with a view to substituting Taft candidates for the Roosevelt candidates on the Republican ticket. The new state committee, however pledged its support and the support of the Republicans generally to the state and congressional tickets and while it pledged support to President Taft this support was given on paper only and did not include any effort to get Taft men on the Republican ticket for presidential electors. A Positive Restriction. The only restriction which Colonel Roosevelt has promised to impose on the support of Republican state and local tickets by his followers is that they must in no case support any state candidate who will not agree to support the Roosevelt electors. A statement to this effect was given out by Colonel Roosevelt only last Saturday at Oyster Bay in connection with reports as to what the Roosevelt party will do to assist Republican candidates for local offices in different states. Howard Sutherland, the Republican nominee for congress-at-large from West Virginia, made an address to the Postmasters' Association at its meeting at Elkins a few weeks ago in which he is said by those present to have recommended that the carrying of West Virginia for Taft should made subordinate to the election of the Republican state ticket on which he has been nominated. Removals in Order. The whole tendency at the present time seems to be for the Roosevelt men and the Taft men to unite upon the electors nominated on the Republican ticket but in reality for Roosevelt and to unite also upon the state ticket. This would mean in effect the entire desertion of Taft by his friends in West Virginia for the sake of the state ticket. Whether the men whom President Taft has appointed to office and whose offices depend upon his reelection will agree to sacrifice him for the sake of the Republican candidates for state officers and congressmen remains to be seen. The chances are that the Republican national committee will become interested in the situation and will see that the Republican party in West Virginia does (Continued on Page Five. Beveridge to Act as Temporary Chairman Former Senator Sevors His Connection with Regulars on Account of Illegal Nomination of President Taft and Signs up With Roosevelt. Chicago, July 25—Announcement of the selection of Former Senator Albert J. Beveridge as temporary chairman of the progressive convention on August 5 was the chief development in political circles today. The announcement was made by Senator Dixon, of Montana, director of Col. Roosevelt's campaign. At the same time a letter from Beveridge to William Holton Dye, of Indianapolis, was made public. This letter sets forth Mr. Beveridge's attitude in the present political crisis, and marks his withdrawal from the Republican party in which he has taken so prominent a part. The letter has been utilized by leaders in the third-party movement as a bill of progressive principles, and will be given wide distribution. In his letter Beveridge finds fault with both the old parties and urges all progressives, irrespective of party, to rally to the Roosevelt third party movement. In this connection the letter states: "The present crisis requires that all progressives of all parties shall a together through an organization of their own with a plainly progressive program and at open war with the evil partisan boss system. Ultimately and soon this will force all genuine reactionaries to act in the same way through a separate organization of their own with plainly stated reactionary program. Thus all of us who as a matter of conviction believe in progressive principles can act together, and the boss system will be unnecessary to either." "Only a truly national non-sectional party, which will permit Americans of all sections who believe In the same things to act and vote together, will dissolve this wicked and dangerous sectionalism and thus unite the nation in very truth. This great end alone is worth the utmost effort of every patriotic man and woman in the whole republic." Senator Dixon tonight said that the committee in charge of the convention arrangements had received more than 1,000 applications from states other than Illinois for seats. He also said that all the delegations would be accompanied by large numbers of progressives who desire to be present at the convention. Birmingham, Ala., July 23.—Receiving a letter requesting his resignation as Collector of Internal Revenue for Alabama and Tennessee, a position he has held for nine years and eight months, Joseph O. Thompson, a leading "Bull Moose" of Birmingham, declined today to resign, and sent a warm reply to Secretary Franklin MacVeagh, of the Treasury Department at Washington, criticising the administration of President Taft and the Secretary. Mr. Thompson stated that on two occasions he had offered to resign, but was urged by the President to retain the position. "No one, not even his most intimate associates," said Thompson in his letter, "can truthfully say that Taft's administration as Chief Executive has been in any wise a success, due argely, if not wholly, to his environment and his unfortunate appointments such as your own, where in your department you seem to have brought about so much confusion that you have subjected yourself to a congressional investigation, and it is hardly to be supposed from what the public has been advised through the press that you will be able to put your house in order by the 4th of next March, as the rank and file of the American people will in November rise to the full majesty of their strength and hurl the present administration from its place." Thompson will be one of the 12 delegates to be elected tomorrow by the Alabama Roosevelt Republicans to the Chicago convention next month. MAINE MEN TO MEET Portland, Me., July 23.—A state convention of the supporters of Colonel Roosevelt will be held in this city July 31 to select delegates to the third-party convention to be held in Chicago, August 5. The Republican state ticket will be Indorsed, but a new set of Presidential Electors will be nominated. Slaughter Is Elected GRAND MASTER BY THE MASON IC GRAND LODGE IN SESSION HERE THIS WEEK Former Governor MacCorkle Extends Welcome to the City and Lauds the Opportunities Offered by the State to Men and Women of Color Trying to Rise. With the installation of officers and the conferring of the past master's degree at Institute, this afternoon, the Grand Lodge of Masons, which had been in session here since Tuesday noon, concluded its business. Representatives from thirty-two subordinate lodges and the full corps of grand officers were present Tuesday morning at 11:00 o'clock when the services inaugurating the three days session of the 34th annual communication were held at the First Baptist church Welcoming addresses on behalf of the city and the local lodge were delivered by Former Gov. Wm. A. MacCorkle and J. W. Chappelle, Esq., respectively. Gov. MacCorkle's address was brief but abounding in encouragement and good will to his hearers. He dwelt at some length upon the natural resources of the state and pointed out the many advantages it offers to the man or woman whose aim is self-development. He called attention to its fair laws and their impartial enforcement; its educational system and the equal opportunities it offers to the youth of both races; and urged with evident sincerity that all seize upon these blessings and make the most of them. Governor MacCorkle does not, he said, agree in toto with those who argue that the acquirement of property is the panacea for all the ills of which the colored people complain. He placed greater emphasis upon the building up of character, the love of one's fellows and the fear of God and thankfulness for His goodness. With the training of the head and hand and the getting of this world's goods, he sought to impress the desirability of the education of the heart saying that equal attention to these three were necessary to the making of a good citizen. His remarks were received with every evidence of favor, and their conclusion was marked with hearty applause. Mr. Chappelle, who followed Governor, confined himself largely to the discussion of the principles of the order, tracing its history from the earliest traditions and pointing out the influence it has exerted upon nearly every phase of the world's history. His address was generally conceded to be a very able one, dealing as it did with the application of the teachings of masonry to every day life. He cited examples to show how it has made man and the world he lives in better, and evoked frequent applause by his apt allusions to the tools used in the erection of houses which he compared with the building of character. Response to both welcoming addresses was made by Prof. S. H. Guss, principal of the normal department of the West Virginia Colored Institute, who promised for the visitors due regard for the courtesies extended and circumspection in the exercise of the liberties so freely offered. The delegates and officers then returned to the K of P. hall, corner of Washington and Dickinson streets, where the business sessions are being held. The day was confined to organization and the transaction of routine affairs, many of which are of unusual importance to the jurisdiction. The spirited contest expected on account of the numerous candidates for the office of Grand Master, turned out to be a very tame affair when the election was held yesterday afternoon, H. H. Ralley, of Montgomery, and H. H. Bundley, of Macdonald, the present incumbent, were nominated along with A. P. Straughter, of Hinton. The first two named having withdrawn, Straughter was elected by acclamation. For deputy grand master, Allen A. DeHonney, of this city, had no opposition and received the unanimous vote. Clarksburg's candidate for senior grand warden, J. E. Howard, received over two-thirds of the votes cast and won with ease over R. J. Crawford, of Elkins. About the same majority was given L. E. Johnson, of Keystone, who was opposed to J. T. Jackson, of Parkersburg, for the office of junior grand warden E. L. To Capture Bodliy State Organizations To the Number of Six and Turn Them Ov't to Progressive Party is Said to be the Latest Move on the Political Checkerboard. Oyster Bay, July 25.—Six staunch Republican states have adopted a plan, Roosevelt said tonight, for the bodily capture of the Republican organizations by the national progressive party. The states he named are Kansas, Minnesota, South Dakota, Idaho, California and Washington. In each of these states, according to Roosevelt leaders who have talked with the ex-president or his aides, the Republican organization is in the control of the supporters of the new party to an extent sufficient to enable them to transfer the organization virtually intact to Roosevelt's support. In each case it is the intention to retain the name Republican and place candidates for congress and state offices on the regular Republican ticket. In states in which the law requires that the names of Taft and Sherman be placed on the ballot as the Republican nominees, the Roosevelt candidates for electors will go in a separate column. Where the law does not exact this the Roosevelt candidates probably will be placed under the regular Republican emblem, on the theory that Roosevelt is the legitimate nominee of the party. THE NATIONAL NEGRO BUSI NESS LEAGUE. Presidents and secretaries of State Negro Business Leagues throughout the United States, as well as officers of Local Negro Business Leagues, are busily engaged arranging for special Pullman, tourist or chair car accommodations for delegates who plan to attend the thirteenth annual meeting of the National Negro Business League to be held in Chicago, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, August 21, 22 and 23, 1912. Delegates intending to be present should send early notice of such intention to S. J. Evans, Chairman, Committee on Homes, 417 East 42nd Place, Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Evans and his committee will assign these various delegations in accordance with such instructions as may be sent them. The Chicago Negro Business League in planning for the social entertainment of the delegates has arranged an automobile tour of the city, taking in the various points of interest, the monster business houses, the Board of Trade, etc.; also for a boat excursion on Lake Michigan in honor of the delegates, and a banquet at the Seventh Regiment Armory on the last evening of the Convention. In addition to these social features which have been arranged for the entertainment of the delegates, entertainments are also being arranged for at the various clubs of the city; a reception in honor of the wives of the delegates promises to be the event of the meeting. The daily sessions of the League will be held in the Pekin Theater, 27th and State streets. The program for the meeting will be issued from the press not later than August 1st. Instead of being closely confined to stories of personal "experiences" as in other years, specialis have been invited to speak on various subjects of commercial interest to the delegates: Messrs. J. Rosenwald, president of Sears, Roebuck & Company, the philthropist; Edward B. Butler, of Butler Brothers, and a number of Chicago's most prominent business men, have been requested to be present, and deliver short addresses. Such addresses from these captains of industry and finance, should be most helpful. The morning session, Thursday, August 22d, will be used altogether by the National Negro Bankers' Association. PLATFORM PLANKS READY Columbus, Ohio, July 23.—Randolph W. Walton, former executive clerk under Ohio governors and one of the leading Bull Moosers in Ohio, is going to attend the Chicago convention August 5 as a delegate. Walton will have some planks in his pocket to be put into the platform and if they are not put in he says he will fight. One of them is woman suffrage, a second declares that the high cost of living is dug to artificial combinations in restraint of trade and a third is for a system of preferential duties in favor of American ships. WILL T. R. "SHOW" EM? Kansas City, Mo., July 23.—A state progressive convention to organize the new party in Missouri and to select delegates to the national convention in Chicago will be held July 30. AND RETURN OF THE PEOPLE TO POWER IS AIM OF PROGRES. SIVES SAYS T. R. Room for All Comers Former Republicans & Former Democrats will be Warned Into the Bull Moose Hunt where all Will be on Exact Quality and Have Equal Shares. New York, 23.—Bosses had another bad hour today. Not only were their machinations ruthlessly exposed, but the impending collapse of their operations was predicted, when, in his first speech since he returned from Chicago, Colonel Roosevelt set forth his reasons for leading in the formation of a new party. His address was delivered at a meeting of the New York.State County Chairmen of the National Progressive party. Colonel Roosevelt did not intend to speak, he declared, but the chairmen would not be denied. "No man knows better than I," said Colonel Roosevelt, "that enthusiasm and high principles cannot be effective without organization and work. A great responsibility rests upon you men here, who are undertaking the organization of a new party which is to stand four-squared to democracy, which is to be literally the party of the people. It will fight on live issues and not dead ones. "It will embody a protest against the corruption in both of the old party machines. Room For All Corners, "It will be a party into which former Democrats and former Republicans, without regard to their political past, are to come in on an exact equality and to have each the same share in the party management. "When we get this started it will be a party not only representing the people at election time, but will represent them in party management. "We are going to see to it that it is organized so that it will be impossible for any 53 men chosen four years before by politicians to stand supernium to all the voters of a great state like California, and that if that state has not shaped its laws according to a given call of 53 private men the state shall not be disfranchised. "My own judgment is that Messrs. Barnes, Penrose, Guggenheim and Company made a poor swap when they took two stolen delegates from California in place of the electoral vote of California. They were not contented with that. Bosses Given a Rap "They swapped the electoral vote of Massachusetts for the vote of two delegates. I think it was about as expensive a swap as was ever made by political managers. "No good will come if we merely substitute one set of bosses for another. There is nothing that the bosses of both parties wish so much as to see every decent man vote alternately for each with the vague idea that he is reducing the other. "Now, no doubt, Mr. Barnes and Mr. Murphy would like to have everything all the time, but they are perfectly willing each to take half rather than nothing. "But we do not care anything about dividing the state equally between them. What we intend to do is to take it from both, and we intend to take the nation from both. "And in this party we intend to build a government without and within the party on the lines of genuine popular rule and of social and industrial justice for farmer, wage worker, business man and professional man alike, to be achieved not through the boss, not through the indirect control of the party organization by special privilege, but to be achieved through genuine and not merely nominal rule of the people themselves." Reports Highly Optimistic. The reports of the County Chairman all were highly optimistic, and the Colonel beamed with pleasure at various predictions of an overwheming Roosevelt vote. Announcement was made by Chairman Hotchkiss that a meeting of the delegates and alternates to the Chicago convention elected from the various congressional districts in the state would be held in Buffalo on August 3 for the purpose of electing two delegates and two alternates at large (Continued on Page Five.) CORRESPONDENCE MONTGOMERY Rev. G. W. Curry filled his regular quarterly appointment here Saturday and Sunday. Miss Mabel Peters, of Winona, and Miss Mary Gordon, teacher at Vanetta, are here attending teachers institute and are guests of Miss Mary Ackel. Rev. C. C. Page filled his regular engagement at Donwood Sunday. Mrs. Warner Brown has been elected teacher of the Longacre school. Sillas Marks and H. H. Railey are in Charleston, attending the Grand Lodge of Masons. Mrs. F. D. Railey has been reappointed teacher of the Smithers School. Mrs. L. A. T. Gough has returned from a visit to points in the eastern cities. Mrs. Ethel Bryant Anderson, teacher at Booner, is here attending institute. Mrs. S. E. Marks was hostess to the Woman's Improvement League Monday evening. Miss Lola M. Lavender has returned from Hampton where she attended summer normal. Miss Louise Willis is sick at the home of her sister, Mrs. T. W. Wade, at her home on Fourth avenue. Mrs. Rosa Hardmon, teacher at Glen Ferris, is here attending teachers institute and is the guest of her mother, Mrs. Henry Hardy. Miss Beulah Saunders and Mr. Robert Henly, of Eagle, were quietly married at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. Saunders. EAGLE Mrs. Orange Page, of Florida, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lemons. Miss Nellie and Leona Hayden were shopping in Montgomery last week. Little Gladys Dixon and Carrie Cosby are spending some time in Huntington with their mother and sister, Mrs. Alice Dixon. Mrs. Lizzie Miller, of Page, was visiting relatives here last week. Henry Ramsey and Samuel Donnally, of Charleston, were the guests of Mrs. Eva B. Russ last Sunday. Miss Burns Carter, of Montgomery, was the guest of Mrs. Lizzie Godfrey Sunday. Mrs. W. J. Miller was shopping in Montgomery last week. Mrs. Lizzie Winston was visiting at Handley Monday. Chas. Lemons, of Montgomery, was visiting relatives here Sunday. Pres. Burns, of Boomer, was the Sunday guest of the Lemons boys John Woods, of Kanawha City, was the guest of James Russ last week. Emmet and Sandy Saunders were calling in Montgomery last Sunday. Mrs. W. J. Miller was somewhat indisposed last week. Mrs. Eva B. Russ was shopping in Montgomery Friday. RED SULPHUR SPRINGS Miss Nellie Robinson, of Macdonald, is here visiting friends for a few days. The funeral of Vivian Cobbs, who died in Bluefield last Tuesday morning, took place at M. E. church Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock. It was a most solemn occasion. His relatives after spending a few days returned to Bluefield. He leaves a father and mother and other relatives to mourn Rev. H. H. Moore preached a delightful sermon yesterday at M. E. church. A program was rendered in the afternoon by the young folks, assisted by W. W. Williams. Miss Edith Johnson returned home Saturday from Hinton. Mrs. Rasp Pack lgft Tu sday for Hinton. Miss Lelia Dickerson was the guest of Miss Minnie Dickerson Sunday from Lindside. HINTON Mrs. Willie Peters, of Detroit, Mich., is visiting relatives and friends. A large number of members attended the meeting of the Progressive Sons and Daughters, which was held at the home of Mrs. Rachel Smithers last week. Rev. A. D. Lewis returned from Clifton Forge last Friday, where he was invited to deliver an address at the unveiling of a life-size portrait of Rew. D. A. Reid. Mrs. Bell Pack returned last week from a very delightful trip to Red Sulphur Springs and other poles east. Miss Lou Jones, of Huntington, spent a few days with her sister, Mrs. Dora Page. She left last week for poles in Virginia. Mr. and Mrs Wm. Stevenson and their daughter Julia, returned last week after having spent a delightful visit to Peoria, Ill., and other cities of the west. The convention of the International Liberty Union of the World convened at the M. E. church last week. A. P. Straughtra delivered a very interesting address on "Race Unity," Friday evening. Mrs. Minnie Mondun. of Richmond, Va., is visiting her parents. Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Pack, of Pleasants street. Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Longhorne, of Herman street, are rejoicing over the recent arrivals of twins, a boy and girl. A very pleasing literary entertainment was given by the Baptist Missionary Society at the Second Baptist Church under the direction of Mrs. John Adams, Tuesday evening. Prof. J. W. Moss, of Virginia, was appointed principal of Hinton Public School by the Board of Education last Monday. Prof. Moss comes to us well recommended. INSTITUTE Misses Ethel and Lou Ellen Spriggs entertained Monday evening in honor of the Summer School students and visitors. Mrs. Lena Porter, Misses Effie Mason and Jessie Lindsey are guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Lowry. S. H. Guss, C. E. Jones and Solution brown attended the Masonic G. and Lodge, in Charleston, as delegates. Prof. Henry T. McDonald preached at the Simpson M. E. church in Charleston Sunday morning. Dr. Andrew H. Brown spent Sunday at Institute. Miss Esther Fulks is the guest of the Misses Spriggs. Prof. J. R. Jefferson was called home Friday because of the death of his mother-in-law. Walter Curtis, of Raleigh, N. C. is visiting his brother, A. W. Curtis. CHARLESTON Hotel Brown Arrivals—Miss Effie Mason, Des Moines, Iowa; Miss Jessie Lindsey, Wayne, Mrs. Ethel Anderson, Bidwell, O.; J. C. Eccles, Winifrede; Miss Olive Hale Monmouth Ill.; L. C. Prindle, Roseville, O.; Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Taylor, Hinton; Misses Mary Whimbs, M. E. Brady, Juanita Arter and Laura Brimage, Harper's Ferry; Mrs. A. K. Dandridge, Ronceverte; C. H. Woods, Kanawha City; George Dingess, Cedar Grove; H. Robinson, Raymond City; H. Calloway Boomer; J. W. Williams, St. Albans; Howard Jackson, Plymouth; A. Payne, Raymond City; J. A. Payne, Washington, D. C.; J. R. Froe, Wilcoe; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Kimbrough, South Carbon; Mr. and Mrs. Neal Saunders, Kimberly; H. Chandler, Cabin Creek; L. Washington and Frank Page, Wake Forest; Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Cooper, Garrison; H. B. Hundley, Macdonald; R. L. Shelton, Ward; E. H. Cedrick, Bluefield; J. A. Murphy and J. A. Walker, Gary; D. W. Redmond, Piedmont; C. P. Lewis, Moorefield; W. A. Gilmore, Piedmont; L. E. Johnson, Keystone; A. T. Bolden, Bluefield; W. B. Crenshaw, Fairmont; O. Wilson, Clarksburg; Rev. A. C. Wilson, Sewall; Miss Gertrude Powell, Warm Springs, Va.; A. G. Allen, Kingston; C. Cooper, Columbus, O.; Luther Gordon, St. Albans; and Oliver Wilkerson, Montgomery, were registered at Hotel Brown this week. Sg. Paul Church Notes. On Sunday, August 4th, collections will be taken up at St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal church for education. The pastor and his congregation hope that there will be a large attendance on that day. The lawn fete which was to have been held on the 15th inst. was postponed to August 5th when it will be held at the home of Mrs. Lettie Johnson, 709 Morris St. The organization which is to be the host on this occasion has for its president Mrs. M. A. Moss who promises that the affair will be a pleasant one In Honor of Miss Roane—Complimentary to Miss Byrd Roane, her house guest, Miss Maude Viney entertained at cards at her home on Jacob street, Monday evening. A large number of guests were present and the evening was very pleasantly spent in dancing and other divertissements. Miss Roane has been in the city several weeks and has made many friends during her stay here. She expects to leave next week for Huntington to take part in the festivities incident to the meeting of the Pythian Grand Lodge and Grand Court of Calanthe. Prof. Miller's Lecture.—The extreme heat prevented many from being present at Simpson Methodist Episcopal church, Monday evening, when Prof. Kelly Miller, dean of the department of arts and sciences of Howard University, Washington, D. C., lectured on "Race Loyalty." Prof. Miller sustained his reputation as a forceful speaker and deep reasoner, and his lecture was received with every evidence of appreciation by the audience. Tribe of Judah Meets.—Over sixty AT THE BURLEW EVERY NIGHT LATEST MOVING PICTURES BALCONY RESERVED FOR COLORED PEOPLE 5c. ALL SEATS 5c. 7-11 P. M. members and visitors of the "Tribe of Judah" spent a very pleasant evening Thursday of last week at the home of Rev. and Mrs. Edw. Humbles, their hosts being Miss Mildred Kinney, J. A. Franklin and A. G. Anderson, who were assisted by Misses Willie Brown, Gertrude Johnson, Eva Parker and Fannie Thomas Rev. P. N. Tolliver, of Waynesboro, Va., who has been assisting Rev. B. R. Reed in the jubilee meeting at the First Baptist church, was present and spoke very interestingly. The club meets this evening with Mrs. M. C. Alexander. The Jackson Reception.—A large number of their friends were present Thursday evening of last week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Jackson, the occasion being an "At Home" from 8 to 10 p. m. tendered by Mr. Jackson's parents to introduce his young bride to those among whom she recently cast her lot. The house was beautifully decorated, posted plants and cut flowers being used in profusion. The guests were received by Miss Gertrude Campbell and presented to the host and hostess by Miss Viney. Ladies' Aid Entertained.—Mrs Lula Dick rson, Hattie Hill and Lucy Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. E. Clark were hosts to the Ladies' Aid of the St. Paul A. M. E. church at the latter's apartments in the Brown addition, Friday evening. A large number of members and visitors participated in the meeting. After the dispatch of the regular routine of business Revs. E. D. Humbles, E. Fort and R. C. Melver, addressed the Aid. Painfully Burned.—While attending to her household duties, Friday morning, Mrs. Nettie Hackley was painfully burned about the arms and body at her home on Jacob street. Her clothing became ignited from a gas stove and it was due solely to her presence of mind that the result was not more serious. During the excitement some one burned in a fire alarm, but fortunately the services of the firemen were not needed. Success of Meeting Assured. The Atheneum Club meeting Monday evening was crowded at Mrs. Sarah Williams on Morris street and the interest and good feeling among the members and visitors were up to the usual standard. The Club has chartered the steamer J. Q. Dickinson for the second Sunday in August and will attend an old time basket, and bush meeting at Plymouth. The other clubs and citizens have assured the committee on arrangements of their going and it looks as if the largest crowd that has for a long time been afloat will go to Plymouth. J. I. Thomas, of Wevaco, and Rev. B. R. Reed made brief and very encouraging addresses. S. Faulkner and G. H. Edmund assisted by Miss Mattie Crawford and Mrs. H. Meadows served luncheon. Personals and Locals. L. N. Brown, of Institute, has secured the contract to erect a $6,000 store building on Capitol street, this city. Mrs. Maria Snyder is reported ill at her home on upper Washington street. Rev. B. R. Reed and a number of the members of the First Baptist church are attending the Mt. Olivet Baptist Association at Raymond City. Mrs. Mary Starks, whose illness was reported last week, is improving. Rev. Sheppard, the missionary to Africa, will tell his experiences in the Dark Continent at Simpson church on the 5th of August. The Ladies Art Club will meet Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Willie May Ford. Mrs. Mattie Pettigrew, of Roanoke, Va., 's visiting her sister, Mrs. Julius Thomas, Donnally street. D. W. White, of Mt. Hope, spent Tuesday here the guest of the Misses Taylor, Washington street. Mrs. Mary Thomas is ill at her home on Sentz street Mrs. Cornelia Washington, Bibby street, is indisposed. Mr. R. Moss and Mr. Smith, of Lancaster, Ohio, are visiting in the city. Mrs. R. W. Jeffison and Mrs. Jane Claire gave a lawn fete at the latter's home on Piedmont street, Wednesday evening. Mrs. Fannie DeHonney visited her sister at Eagle last week. Mrs. Mary Robinson is ill at her home on Quarrier street. Miss Olive Hale, of Monmouth, Ill., is visiting her sister, Mrs. F. C. Brown. Misses Bessie Campbell and Lena Rice have returned from the summer school at Harper's Ferry. July Clearance Sale Lawn and Lingeris, to be sold at half of former prices. We are the busiest store in Charleston And Follow the crowds of Economical Buyers to "THAT POPULAR TRADING PLACE" 602 Kanawha St., Cor. Alderson. Joseph Schwab, Proprietor THE ADVOCATE. BURLEW EVEN T MOVING PIC ERVED FOR COL ALL SEATS 7-11 P. M. Mrs. Julia Turner and little daughter, who have been guests of Mrs. Bessie Brouder, returned Monday to their home at Wilhelm, La. Miss Grace Belt, of Montgomery, who has been the guest of Miss Ola Mitchell, left Saturday for Huntington. Mrs. Ada Moss returned Saturday to her home in Lancaster, Ohio, after a pleasant visit of several weeks to her mother, Mrs. J. Bowles. Mrs. Annie O. Neal, of Second avenue, West Side, has as her guest Miss Clarice Jennings, of Cuba. Mrs. Edward Winston is visiting friends at Ronceverte this week. PENX-WIST, POUND-FOOLISH. (From the Washington Herald.) The attitude of the present Democratic House majority as to the naval and military policy has been nothing if not reactionary. This has been illustrated by so conspicuous an act as the halting of the naval building programme. This refusal has awakened the interest of the whole nation. The navy not only is an object of picturesque patriotic pride, it is the first line of our defense. No one believes that in case of an emergency we could man and arm a few passengers or freight vessels and call it a "navy," though there are many among us who delude themselves with the belief that, if we are precipitated into a war, we can make an army-out of a mass of patriotic civilians before the enemy could land on our shores. The navy, according to these wise-acres, is for the purpose of keeping off invaders so that an army will not be necessary. This is nonsense! The navy might delay invasion and make it very costly. But that is large enough to patrol their whole coast and to sweep both oceans for a length of time no sensible American will believe. But the navy is our first line of defense, and a great deal depends upon its efficiency. We are not prepared for war. The neglect of our military establishment makes it especially imperative that invasion be delayed and made as difficult as possible, and this knowledge on the part of the American people supports the Republican policy for a greater navy and their protest against the folly of the Clark-Under wood penny-wise but pound-foolish policy. The refusal to build the two battleships asked for in the budget is not excusable. Such false economy will leave the United States seriously at a disadvantage in the development of first power navies. Insurance against war never is too heavy. The reduction of our navy is not what the people demand. Even the Baltimore platform recognized this. It were well for the Clark-Underwood machine in Congress to uphold that pledge. MONCTON WELCOMES GOVERNOR GENERAL Moncton, S. D., July 27.—The greater part of eastern New Brunswick lent itself to the reception of the Duke of Connaught in his visit to Moncton today. There was a general closing of all business houses and the streets were decorated as never before. The royal party were welcomed at the station and presented with an address by the Mayor. The remainder of the program included a drive about the city and a public reception at the home of F. W. Sumner. HONOR HELPERS OF THE DEAF. Paris, July 27—An interesting celebration will be opened in Paris tomorrow to mark the bicentenary of the birth of Abbe de 'lEpee, inven- July Clean AN EVENT OF GREAT INTEREST Ladies' Garments, Dry Goods at and below cost as we must 389 Ladies' Dresses, made of Lawn and Lingeris, to be so We are the busiest store in C There is a Reason. And Follow the crowds tor of the deaf and dumb alphabet. The celebration will last four days and will include an international congress of deaf mutes, which will be attended by delegates from many countries. Abbe de l'Epee was the first of the great teachers of the deaf and dumb. He was educated for the priesthood, but took up the work of teaching the deaf and dumb before the field had been entered by any one else. He was successful and invented the manual alphabet, which was a great aid in his work and has since remained a standard device. Ex-President Here. Lon Barringer, formerly president of the Mountain States Baseball League, who has been studying law at the University of Michigan and getting along well with his studies as he does in all other undertakings, is in the city for a few days. Mr. Barringer regrets the failure of the Mountain States to last through this season, but he was not at all surprised at the inability of the owners of the clubs to make money and realized that they would not care to keep on losing coin because of the small attendance that featured the games in each city in the circuit. "The patrons of the game apparently want a little more than the owners can afford to pay for," remarked Mr. Barringer. The fans have been educated to high class playing and if they don't get it they wont attend." Suit has been brought in Huntington by six ball players who were on the Huntington team before the League broke up for back salaries. The Sox claim that they have not been paid for services performed for periods ranging from a month to six weeks, and they need some of the kale with which to buy cakes. And then, too, some of the players are married and have depended on them a family. It is believed that a full settlement will be made with the players as soon as the stockholders of the club can get together and contribute. It is a hardship on them for it is money absolutely lost, but that is none of the business of the players. Sweency Much Wanted Hill Sweeney is a much wanted ball player, and they want him over in Cincinnati worse than they want him any place else unless it be in Boston, where he shines prominently as a star. Sweeney, a former Charleston player, is doing the second sack stunt for Boston, in the National league, and is one of the greatest infielders in the game. He played here last Sunday and gained many new friends while his team sojourned in Charleston. Another Wherle Park Newark, in the Ohio State League has a ball park of the same name as the week day park here. It is Wehrle park, spelled the same way as the lot that named by the Charleston fans in consideration of their liking for "Uncel Joe" Wehrle, one of the real thing base ball fans and Moguls of the Kanawha valley. If anyone under the sun could make a ball team pay in Charleston it is none other than "Uncle Joe." WYOMING PROGRES- Cheyenne, Wyo., July 27—In response to a call issued by Governor Joseph M. Carey, a mass convention assembled here today to complete the formation of the Progressive party in Wyoming and to arrange for the representation of the State at the national convention in Chicago next month. Grace Sale TO ALL ECONOMICAL BUYERS and Millinery. Prices marked at make room for our fall stock. Silk, Voile, Chiffon, Gingham, old at half of former prices. Charleston Think it Over. of Economical Buyers to le's Store TRADING PLACE" Joseph Schwab, Proprietor ERY CLEANING WE DE REPAIRING ARleston, W. V. PAY CASH FOR YOUR S should have the benefit of it if only and give 10 per cent. BOND SHOE S 215 CAPITOL ST. ore Next door RUSK GRO SUCCESSORS TO GATES GRO Quality of Groceries Born's Coffee. D g Extracts You should have the benelit of it if you do. We sell for cash only and give 10 per cent. off on all sales. 110 CAPITOL ST. State Summer Colored Third Session, June 17th, Two Distinct departments, which will be devoted to school course, for which students. Also in this connection to pass the exam professional, which is designed to other advanced student entry has been secured for finished educators in this Senior School Faculty, via Dr. BOIS, Ph. D., BOOK. This is to be the Biggest hall. For particulars add R. P. Sims, Bluefild, Ly, W. Va.; or M. P. Sh. CROWN AND BLD HOURS: 8:30 A. M. Dr. JAMES Dent Office: Room 1, K. of P. Bld. Summer School Colored Teachers June 17th, to July 26th, 1912, to set departments will be maintained be devoted to thorough work on for which credit may be had in this connection thorough drill on the examinations will be maired is designed for principals, high ed students. Some of the best secured for this school. Three vars in this country have accept faculty, viz: KELLY MILLE D., BOOKER WASHINGTON, the Biggest and Best School Y regulars address: Byrd Prillerrie Bluefild, W. Va.; H. T. Me M. P. Shawkey, Charleston, AND BRIDGE WORK A SPECIAL 8:30 A. M. to 1:30 P. M., 2:00 to JAMES B. BR Dental Surgeon K. of P. Bldg. State Summer School for Colored Teachers. Third Session, June 17th, to July 26th, 1912, Institute, W. Va. Two Distinct departments will be maintained: 1. The Academic, which will be devoted to thorough work on the branches of the school course, for which credit may be had in the various institutions. Also in this connection thorough drill classes for persons expecting to pass the examinations will be maintained. 2. The Professional, which is designed for principals, high school teachers, and other advanced students. Some of the best talent in the country has been secured for this school. Three of the most distinguished educators in this country have accepted places on the Summer School Faculty, viz: KELLY MILLER, A. M., W. E. B. Du BOIS, Ph. D., BOOKER WASHINGTON, LLD. This is to be the Biggest and Best School Yet. Prepare now to enroll. For particulars address: Byrd Prillerman, Institute, W. Va., R. P. Sims, Bluefild, W. Va.; H. T. McDonald, Harper's Ferry, W. Va.; or M. P. Shawkey, Charleston, W. Va. CROWN AND BRIDGE WORK A SPECIALTY HOURS: 8:30 A. M. to 1:30 P. M., 2:00 to 6:00 P. M. Dr. JAMES B. BROWN Dental Surgeon Office: Room 1, K. of P. Bldg. Home Phone 429 HENRY T. M'DONALD, President. STORER COLLEGE Harper's Ferry, W. Va. Four more than 400 men and women state for Colored students wirklich healthful. Ample ADDED TO OUR PLANT TO highly educated, earnest to our Library catalogued account in the State. EST STREET GERTIFICA More than 400 men and women have graduated here. The oldest school in the state for Colored students. Magnificent location. Elevation high. Remarkably healthful. Ample buildings. THREE NEW BUILDINGS BEING ADDED TO OUR PLANT THIS YEAR. The regular faculty of sixteen highly educated, earnest teachers does not include assistants. men and women have graduated h ed students. Magnificent location 1. Ample buildings. THREE N ER PLANT THIS YEAR. The re earnest teachers does not include logged according to the Dewey S ERTIFICATES ARE GRANTED DUCATING CLASSES WHO ARE OF EDUCATION. Storer is in int body. Its whole influence is les, Christian Organizations, Mus emic, State Normal, Industrial, catalogue and other printed matter The IN AD IN THE ADVOC Our Library catalogued according to the Dewey System, is one of the largest in the State. FIRST GRADE CERTIFICATES ARE GRANTED TO THOSE MEMBERS OF THE GRADUATING CLASSES WHO ARE RECOMMENDED TO THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION. Storer is interdenominational in its faculty and student body. Its whole influence is toward Christian living. Literary Societies, Christian Organizations, Musical Clubs, Bands and Sane Athletics. COURSES: Academic, State Normal, Industrial, Music. For Illustrated catalogue and other printed matter write to THURSDAY JULY 25 1942 EANING WAY PAIRING Phone 790 W. Va. CASH OUR SHOES? benefit of it if you do, 10 per cent. off on all sales. HOE STORE TOL ST. Next door to "Colonial" GRO. C. DRS TO S GRO. CO. Groceries. Chase fce. Dr. Pierce's School for Teachers. May 26th, 1912, Institute, W. Va. will be maintained: 1. The Acarough work on the branches of may be had in the various institi- orough drill classes for persons will be maintained. 2. The principals, high school teachers, some of the best talent in the school. Three of the most dis- have accepted places on the ELLY MILLER, A. M., W. E. WASHINGTON, LLD. Best School Yet. Prepare now to Byrd Prillerman, Institute, W. A.; H. T. McDonald, Harper's Charleston, W. Va. WORK A SPECIALTY P. M., 2:00 to 6:00 P. M. B. BROWN Surgeon Home Phone 429 N. C. BRACKETT, Treasurer. two graduated here. The oldest school sufficient location. Elevation high. figs. THREE NEW BUILDINGS BE BEAR. The regular faculty of six does not include assistants. to the Dewey System, is one of the ARE GRANTED TO THOSE MEM ERS WHO ARE RECOMMENDED TO Storer is interdenominational In the influence is toward Christian Hiv izations, Musical Clubs, Bands and al, Industrial, Music. printed matter write to The President Founded in 1867 Pastor Russell Corrects an Erroneous Impression — Selfishness, Ignorance and Faulty Theories of Creeds Responsible For the Belief That the Dead Are Immediately Rewarded or Condemned—No Man Hath Ascended Into Heaven. On the Atlantic, July 21.—Pastor Russell is on his way to the Continent to serve his pastorate at the London Tabernacle and to lecture twice each week day in many of the principal cities. His appointments will detain him abroad until the forepart PASTOR: RUSSELL PASTOR RUSSELL of September. His text for today was: "If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself, that where I am there ye may be also."—John xiv, 6. He said in part: The error of supposing that men are alive when they are dead lies close to the foundation of every theological error the world over. We have all arreed in taking the guess of Plato instead of the Word of God, and we can get rid of our difficulties and the theological entanglements only by retracing our steps. Notwithstanding all that I have said and written, calling attention to the words of the Scriptures, the question frequently arises. Do you mean to tell us that our friends do not go to Heaven immediately when they die? That is exactly what we are endeavoring to demonstrate to be the teaching of the Bible. The Bible alone, of all religious books, teaches that a dead man is dead, and knows nothing, and that his only hope is in the Divine arrangement through Christ, by a resurrection of the dead—"both of the just and of the unjust."—Acts xxv. 15. When we remember that, according to nearly all the religious creeds and theories of the world, 999 out of every thousand pass immediately at death into most horrible sufferings, one would think that all would be glad to promptly accept the Bible testimony, that Death is a dreamless sleep until the resurrection awakening. Why anyone should prefer to think of his friends and neighbors and the heathen millions as suffering torture, rather than to think of them as being asleep, is beyond our comprehension. The fact probably is that selfishness has such a hold upon the masses that they care and think little respecting others than their near relatives and friends; and the same selfishness inclines them, with infatuation, to believe that they and their relatives, though no better than the rest of mankind, are special favorites of Heaven, and will be granted the reward of the saints, however unsaintly their lives may have been. Some one has suggested that the ideal prayer for such is: "God bless me and my wife, My son John and his wife; Us four, and no more." In harmony with this we find that when death invades a family circle this selfish egotism assumes that the deceased is acceptable to God as a saint, and wafted immediately to heavenly bliss—regardless of how unsaintly had been the life and how little of the Spirit of Christ was ever manifested. The deception is reinforced by the Christian minister called to conduct the funeral service. Whatever he may read from the Bible to the effect that, if there be no resurrection, they that have fallen asleep have perished, his sermon is sure to give the inference that the deceased needs no resurrection, because he has not died, but has merely been transferred from a lower plane of life to a higher one. Proof of this is not given and not asked. The proof is not given because there is no Scriptural proof to give. It is not asked because the people are not sufficiently intelligent on religious subjects to demand a reason and a proof for what is presented to them. The remedy for all this will come when we become more intelligent, more reasoning. No minister of Christ should be abashed to be asked the reason for his faith. St. Peter exhorted that every Christian should be so thoroughly informed respecting the Divine Message as to be able to give a reason to whoever would ask concerning his own faith and his presentations to others. Here note our text. In it the Master says not a word about our going to Him, but quite the contrary—that He would come again and receive us unto Himself. This is in full accord with the teachings of the Apostles. Do they not tell that at the second coming of Christ the resurrection of the Church will be the first item in order; that then that which was sown in weakness will be raised in power; that sown in dishonor will be raised in glory; that sown an animal body will be raised a spirit body; and that so we shall ever be with the Lord? Do they not tell us that this will be an instantaneous change? Is it not styled an awakening from the sleep of death? Hearken to St. Paul: "Behold, I show you a mystery; we shall not all sleep. but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump (seventh trump); for the trumpet shall mind," and the dead in Christ shall rise first; then we which are alive and remain shall be caught away together to a meeting of the Lord in the air." (I Corinthians xv, 51, 52; I Thessalonians iv, 16, 27). How plain, how simple! That will be the first meeting of the Church with hot Lord. All of her members dying before that time will "sleep," while those dying since that time will not need to sleep and wait for the glorious change. But, says one, does not the second, coming of Christ, take place whenever His holy ones die? Does He not immediately come to receive them unto Himself? Surely only a very lame theory could seek to bolster itself up by such a perversion of the Scriptures. If Christ were to come every time one of His salient ones die, would it not mean many comings instead of merely a second coming? And even if His faithful were very few indeed, would it not seem that this would keep the Redeemer busy coming and departing every few minutes? Only crass ignorance of the Bible could excuse any such misapplication of its teachings. Not merely one statement of the Scriptures bears upon this subject, but hundreds of statements of Scripture, by Jesus and the Apostles; and all contradict any such thought. "No Man Hath Ascended to Heaven." Hearken to Jesus' words, "No man hath ascended up to Heaven." Only the Son of Man has ever been in heaven. He has ascended up where He was before, with additional glory and honor. He is now preparing a place for His Bride class and preparing the Bride class for the place—the place of honor at His own right hand. He is overseeing her experiences and causing all things to work together for her good, that she at His Second Coming may be prepared and be accepted as His Bride and granted a share in His glory, honor and immortality. It is in full harmony with this that a little later on the Great Teacher declared that all the dead are in the grave, and that at His second advent He will first call forth His faithful ones to the perfection of life; and later will call forth the remainder of mankind, not as yet found worthy of life, that they may have an opportunity, a testing as respects their worthiness or unworthiness of everlasting life on the human plane. Hear His assurance again respecting His faithful ones—that they shall share in His resurrection, the Chief Resurrection, to glory, honor, immortality, on the spirit plane. He said, "Blessed and holy are all they that have part in the First Resurrection; they shall be priests unto God and Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years." Be it noted that in all these assurances the Church is 'spoken of as a class, all of whom will enter into glory together, at Christ's second coming, and not separately, as each may die. True, each has an individual trial or testing to determine whether or not he or she will be accounted worthy, or fitted for a place in the glorious Body of Christ, in the glorious Bride company, but the statement is repeatedly made that we shall be glorified together, shall have part in the one resurrection "David Not Ascended to Heaven." In full accord with all the foregoing is St. Peter's statement on the Day of Pentecost: "For David is not ascended into the heavens; his sepulchre is with us unto this day." St. Peter's words imply that if King David had ascended to Heaven he would have no sepulchre on earth. Similarly, we might say of all of the Prophets, and of all other persons that, if once they ascended to the heavenly plane, they could not be said to have any sepulchre on earth, for the very thought connected with the word sepulchre is that of a personality awaiting a resurrection, awaiting deliverance from the state and condition of death. So the Scriptures always refer, not to a resurrection of the living, which would be an absurdity, but to a resurrection of the dead. Note the connection in which the Apostle Peter uses this expression: "David is not ascended into the heavens." He had just called attention to the fact that David prophesied of the resurrection of Jesus. In the prophecy he personated Jesus, and said, "Thou wilt not leave My soul in sheol (hades) nor suffer Thine Holy One to see corruption." St. Peter argues that this was not true of David, that he did see corruption, that his soul was left in sheol, and is still there, and will not be reclaimed until Messiah, in the resurrection morning, shall call him forth. "Be With Me In Paradise." But, says some one, did not the dying thief go with Jesus to Paradise the very day in which they both died? And if so, does not this prove that all in harmony with God go to heaven when they die, whatever may be the condition of others in death? No, we have made a stupid blunder and misinterpretation of our Redeemer's dying words to the thief. The wrong thought being in our minds we misinterpreted in harmony therewith. And our interpretation has done an immense amount of harm. Thousands of people have been encouraged to continue a life of sin, trusting that with their dying breath they may have the opportunity of saying, "God be merciful to me," and then be immediately ushered into glory, honor and immortality, as joint-heirs with the Savior, and in as honorable a station as those who "have fought to win the prize, and sailed through bloody seas" of trial, persecution and self-denial. What a travesty of Justice to suppose such an application of this principle! For instance, two unugly persons quarrel. Both draw revolvers and fire; one dies instantly; the other. the words of the two, then a moment, in which he says, "God, be merciful to me." Then, theoretically, he passes into glory, while his victim, not having the opportunity for a cry for mercy, we are told by the same theory, is doomed to endless torture. Note the circumstance. Jesus hung between two thieves, one of whom joined with the multitude in railing at Him as an imposter, crying out, "Yes, if you be the Christ, save yourself and us from death." The other, of better heart, honestly admitted his own guilt and the guilt of his comrade, but defended Jesus, declaring that He was innocent. Following this, he addresses Jesus. We paraphrase his words: "Lord, I have defended you against an unjust attack; remember this poor thief if you ever have an opportunity to do a kindness to me in return. I heard you before Pilate say that you have a Kingdom, but not of this Age; some heavenly Kingdom, I therefore presume. I know little about such matters, but from what I have seen of you I can well surmise you King of such a Kingdom. My request is, Remember me, when Thou comest into Thy Kingdom." To this Jesus replied, "Verily, verily (so be it, so be it, as you have asked)— verily, I say unto thee this day (this dark day, in which it would appear that I have not a friend in Heaven or on earth—this dark day in which I am crucified as a malefactor a falsifier and a blasphemer—I say unto thee this day), thou shalt be with Me in Paradise." Paradise has not yet come. Messiah's Kingdom has not yet been established; and it must come first before Paradise Lost can be restored and the whole earth be made God's glorious foot-stool, as He has promised. But when the time shall come, when the Kingdom shall be established, when Paradise conditions shall be introduced; the resurrection of that thief will be in order; "for all that are in their grace shall hear the voice of the Son of Man and shall come forth." The thief will then find himself in Paradise—not merely because of the kindness done to Jesus, but especially because his kind words indicated a sincerity and honesty of heart such as the Lord is always glad to bless and reward. On the day of their dying all three went to hades, to sheol, to the tomb, to the state of the dead. The two thieves still remain there, and are amongst those mentioned by the Prophet Daniel when he refers to those "who sleep in the dust of the earth," who will come forth in the resurrection morning. (Daniel xl, 2.) But Jesus arose from sheol, from hades, from the tomb, from the state of death, on the third day. He had not been to Paradise, for Paradise is not even yet in existence. He had not been to Heaven, for He had been dead. Let us hear His own words to Mary on the morning of His resurrection: "I have not yet ascended * * * to My Father, and your Father, to My God, and your God." (John xx, 17.) Could anything be plainer, simpler, more harmonious? Depart and Be With Christ. Ah, says one, I have great faith in St. Paul, and I remember his words: "I am in a strait between two things: having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better." If St. Paul expected to depart and be with Christ, why is it not reasonable to suppose that he did so, and that all others, at least of the saintly, at death so depart and pass at once into the presence and fellowship of Jesus? Yet such a misunderstanding of St. Paul's words and thoughts are excusable in view of the general trend of Christian thought in this subject for centuries, and in view of the error made in this case by the translators. We are not faulting the translators, because they had the erroneous thought firmly embedded in their minds and presumably were trying to make the Apostle here say what they consciently thought he ought to say. But what we are interested in knowing is, What did he say on the subject? Let us read the Apostle's words critically. He was in a strait between two things—whether he would prefer to live and suffer further for the Truth's sake, and assist the brevets, or whether he would prefer to did he rest from his labors. Between these two positions he had no choice. But there was a third thing—and if this had been a possibility he would have had no difficulty in deciding he had a real, positive desire respecting it; neither of the things which were possible to him would have stood in comparison at all, this third thing would have been so desirable. Now what was that third thing? It was not to live and suffer and help the brethren, nor was it to die and be at rest from his labors. The third thing, according to a literal translation, is expressed thus: "I have a desire for the returning, and being with Christ, which is far better"—far better than either living under the present trying conditions or dying, sleeping, resting and waiting for the Kingdom. But, says one, by what authority do you render the word depart by a word of very opposite meaning, namely not turn. We answer that we give this rendering on the authority of the Greek text. The Greek word is analusui; it is found in another place in the Bible, and there it is rendered return. In this other case there can be no question as to the proper translation.—See Luke xxll, 36. Let us, then, dear follow-Christians, turn from the follies of the Dark Ages and take the inspired words of Jesus, the Apostles and Prophets, and have, indeed, "beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for the spirit of heaviness," in respect to the understanding of the Heavenly Father's Program. Thus we will find fulfilled in us more and more the Master's prayer: "Sanctify them through Thy Truth; Thy Word is Truth." MAY SPLIT MINE WORKERS Terre Haute, Ind., July 25. An important convention of the Indiana locals of the United Mine Workers of America assembled here today. The purpose of the convention as set forth in the call fo the gathering, is to consider the advisability of refusing to pay the international tax and to determine who is responsible for the action of the scale committee at the Cleveland interstate conference last spring by which the Indiana miners could not insist on their demand for the weekly pay day as provided by the Indiana law. The possibility of the Indiana miners seceding from the national organization in the event that their demands are refused is being freely discussed, but it is not considered likely that the convention will decide upon taking such an extreme step. SOME CHARLESTON PERSONS Under the caption "Convention Notes" (refraring to the recent Democratic convention at Madison) Capt. John L. Massey, editor of the Boone Democrat, has the following notes of interest here: Emory McClure's band captured the vast assembly with its catchy music. Mack is an old "grunt" and is a fine musician as well. His musical aggregation, only a small part of whom were here, are known throughout the state as "The Rough Necks" and are in great demand at political gatherings. Colonel Robert S. Carr was here to attend the conventions. The genial Colonel "Bob" does not look a day older than he did some twenty years ago. Father Time is certainly dealing gently with his favored friends—Colonel Carr being one of them. Walter W. Point, Jr., the brilliant staff correspondent of the Charleston Dally Gazette, was here to do the convention for his paper. Harry Flournoy, wearing his usual smile of good-nature and good-fellowship for all was here too and seemed to enjoy himself. Among the distinguished gentlemen here last Saturday was Hon. J. Ferece Bedell, President of the Board of Affairs, of Charleston and acting mayor in the absence of Mayor James A. Holley. St. Poud, Minn., July 25.—The fifth annual reliability run of the Minnesota State Automobile Association started from this city today, with Winnipeg as the objective point. The tourists will leave Winnipeg next Monday on their return trip, which will be made by way of Grand Forks and Fargo, N. D. OKLAHOMA PROGRESSIVES Oklahoma City, Okla., July 25—Roosevelt supporters in Oklahoma, led by former Governor Frank Frantz, gathered for a State convention here today to select delegates to the third party national convention in Chicago and to take other steps to give Oklahoma due representation in the new Progressive party organization. The supporters of the movement are much encouraged by the announcement that seven of the nominees for presidential electors on the regular Republican State ticket in Oklahoma intend to vote for Roosevelt if elected. Resting up preparatory to their invasion of the East, the Western clubs have no games on the schedule today. The Reds, who have Brooklyn, where, if the Dodgers are severely crippled, the Porktown lads may be able to at least reach the half thousand mark again. Four games are on the card for these two teams at this session. The Pirates go to Philadelphia where they have four games to play, while the Cubs will have to tackle the Giants in New York in a series of four games. St. Louis and Boston will have a four game session over at the Hub. After the Cubs get through with New York, the Giants will have another opportunity to do things to the Reds, four games being on the list at the Polo grounds between these two teams. NATIONAL LEAGUE SCHEDULE Jimmie Curnane, well known throughout the old Mountain States circuit, was recently operated on for appendicitis and because of his condition has been compelled to retire from the game for the season. He has been attached to the Ironton club for some time and was recognized as a good man on the mound. He has gone to his home near Boston and will rest for several weeks before trying to take any unnecessary exercise. MONEY SAVING AND THE DISPOSING OF A LARGE SURPLUS STOCK IS THE OBJECT OF THIS Sat. July 20, 1912, a 9 O'Clock A. M. And Last for 10 Days Only in the Store Room 23,000 Dollars orth of Clean Merchandise at Cost. MONEY SAVING THAT IS UNEQUALED IN THE HISTORY OF CHARLESTON'S RETAIL BUSINESS 23,000 Dollars Worth of Dependable Goods at Cost. Absolutely Free! The Charleston Progressive Sales Agency 804 KANAWHA STREET 804 NEXT TO THE NATIONAL CITY BANK BLDG. PASTORIOUS HAS QUIT. Umpire, Pastorius, liked, by some and distilled by others, as most umpires are, resigned as arbiter of play in the Ohio State League. He says his salary was cut, but the league officials say that such is not the case. Pastorius have been getting some severe criticisms since Ironton of the late Mountain States League, climbed aboard the Ohio State band wagon. AFTER BOYD CHAMBERS AFTER BOYD CHAMBERS The Ironton Nailers, who have found that winning a pennant in the Ohio State League is not so easy as it look on paper, is looking out for some new players and the management has made a nice offer to Boyd Chambers, formerly of the Mountain States, who is a student of Marshall College. It is not known whether he will accept. He is wanted to succeed Miller at first base. PACIFIC LOGGING CONGRESS Tacoma, Wash., July 25—The Pacific Logging Congress began its fourth annual meeting here today with a large attendance of representatives of the logging industry in California, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Idaho, and British Columbia. The meeting will last three days. The utilization of electricity and the use of fuel oil in logging operations are the chief subjects clated for discussion. At the conclusion of the sessions the members will pay a visit of inspection to the big lumber camps at Kapowsin. OHIO TOWN'S CENTENNIAL Atlanta, Ga., July 25.—Members of the order of Gideons, the organization of "Christian traveling men." are swarming into Atlanta from all parts of the country to attend their national convention. The gathering will have its opening tomorrow and will continue in session several days. CRICH LOW Charleston, W. Va. DONNALLY ST. - Residence Phone 1118 ; 2-4 p. m.; 6-8 p. m. QWYH Beef, Veal Mutton, Pork Fresh Pork Sausage, Our Own Make Try Our Machine Sliced Hams and Bacon OYSTERS, FISH, POULTRY The best qualities in all the popular kinds of We want your patronage for we have complete stock in our lines and you can get it when you want more. Published every Thursday by The Advocate Printing and Publishing Co., Inc. L. O. Wilson, recently elected a member of the Republican State committee, teacher in the colored school at Weston, variously styled as professor, principal and superintendent, is out in a long "interview" advising "my people" to remain steadfast in their allegiance to the Republican party. Mr. Wilson advises this course, he says, because of the well-known hostility of the Democratic party to the Negro, the uncertainty of the attitude of the Progressives, and because the Republican party gave us freedom. In so far as the Democratic party is concerned, The Advocate is in accord with the gentleman from Weston, but it does not think his reasoning sounds either as to the Progressives or the Republican National party. It fails to see any cause for alarm in the Progressive movement so far as the Negro is concerned. At its head is a man who, more than any other who has occupied the White House in a quarter of a century, has demonstrated his freedom from race prejudice; it was he who advocated the "open door" for every man, regardless of race, condition or previous condition of servitude, and forced an unwilling Senate to confirm his appointments of persons of color against whom the only objections were the accident of birth. How different was this from the platform laid down by Mr. Taft in his inaugural address, to which he adhered, when he said he would make no appointments of colored men in communities where they would be objectionable to the white people! What was the result? The almost total elimination of the Negro from politics in the Southland. The "lily white" movement has increased by leaps and bounds under the encouragement it has received from the White House, and but-two places of prominence remain to us where there were once a score or more. And Mr. Wilson thinks the Negro should continue in his support to the Republican party because it freed him! What rot! Up until the black voter arrived at the point where he could read and digest history this was a potent argument; it was the stock in trade of every spell-binder, white or black, who addressed a political meeting composed mostly of Negroes. There never passed a campaign since he was enfranchised, but he was reminded of the eternal debt of gratitude he owed the Republican party for the opportunity of returning it to power. Not a word did he hear of the statement of President Lincoln, the Liberator whose memory we revere, that if he could save the Union without freeing the slaves, he would do it. Not once was he reminded that the Emancipation Proclamation was a war measure, one promulgated—in the language of President Lincoln—simply to save the Union. Nor did they tell him how much blood his race had shed nor how many lives it had contributed toward making an actuality of what was a mere probability, in short, how much he himself had done to break the fetters of slavery. It sufficed—as Mr Wilson thinks it does now—simply to say that the Negro should vote the straight Republican ticket because that party had freed him. Granting that this moth-eaten argument is founded on facts, that the conferring of freedom upon and the granting of the ballot to the Negro were actuated by no ulterior motives, it must be confessed that the debt has been paid after all these years that the Negro voter has blindly followed the Republican party. Surely some independence of thought must be allowed him, since his benefactors have tacitly rejected his support by their acquiescence in the disfranchising legislation enacted by nearly every State at the South. Time after time the Republican party in national convention assembled has deplored this discriminatory legislation, but, though it has controlled all but a few of the congresses since these abuses arose, it has made no earnest effort to abolish them. And yet the Negro is advised to sup port Mr. Taft whose administration marks the low tide of Republicanism so far as the Negro voter is concerned. When the ballot was first given him the Negro made the monumental mistake of limiting his support to one party. About forty years have passed and he has grown in intelligence and wealth. Will he make the same mistake again? Will he reject the opportunity offered by the Progressive parity to come again into his own? GOVERNOR'S STATEMENT GOVERNOR'S STATEMENT Only the most radical pro-Taft man can find anything in the statement issued by Governor Glassecock Monday, upon which to hang the least objection. First and foremost he is for the State ticket, the support of which is, in view of the methods adopted to nominate Mr. Taft and Mr. Sherman, the only measure of Republicanism. He would leave to the conscience of the voters as to whether or not they support the national ticket. What more could any fair man ask? Those who insist that the nominees for State office on the Republican ticket should not allow their names to be placed upon the 1'progressive ticket, and threaten reprisals if they do, are not half so solicitous lest the State should go Democratic in November as they pretend to be. They are all sufficiently well versed in politics to know that it is to the interest of every candidate and his party for him to get on as many tickets as he can, and that if the Progressives should endorse any candidate on the regular Republican ticket, the chances of the election of that candidate would be enhanced thereby. If it is possible for the Republicans of West Virginia to get together on the State ticket, and it is possible if the radical Taft people would exercise a little judgment, it certainly behooves them to do so. With the sole support of either faction, or rather, of the Republicans or the Progressives, no ticket other than that named by the Democrat's can win. This being the case, the less attention paid to the mongrel editor of the Wheeling Intelligence, the better it will be for those who would not assist the Democrats in their efforts to capture the State. THE LAST RESORT The desperation to which the supporters of Mr. Taft have been driven was evidenced by the publication last week of the report that a number of officials of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows had called upon the President and assured him of the support of the colored people in their respective States. Like many others The Advocate was taken in by this canard, it thought that the gentlemen named in the dispatch had been fools enough to do what they were reported to have done. From the West Virginia member of the delegation it is learned that only so much of the report that announced their visit to the White House was true. He says that no assurances of support were asked nor given and that there was no mention made of politics whatever. Moreover we are advised that the delegation from the National Civic and Political Negro League, to which the press says Mr. Taft made a speech in the East Room of the White House, was composed of two men. How hath the mighty fallen! How weak must be the cause that is reduced to the extremity of deception of the most glaring character. AN EXPERIENCE ON THE FILE BUSTER, "THE THREE FRIENDS In the glare of the searchlight David saw the eyes of the youth starring at him as though he feared he were in the clutch of a madman. Wrenching himself free, the youth pointed at the pilot-house. Above it on a blue board in letters of gold-leaf a foot high was the name of the tug. As David read it his breath left him, a finger of ice passed slowly down his spine. The name he read was The Three Friends. "The Three Friends!" shrieked David. "She's a filibuster! She's a pirate! Where are we going?" "To Cuba!" David emitted a howl of anguish, rage, and protest. "What for?" he shrieked. The young man regarded him coldly. "To plant bananas" he said. "I won't go to Cuba," shouted David. "I've got to work! I'm paid to sell machinery. I demand to be put ashore. I'll lose my job if I'm not put ashore. I'll sue you! I'll have the law——" David found himself suddenly upon his knees. His first thought was that the ship had struck a rock, and then that she was bumping herself over a succession of coral reefs. She dipped, dived, reared, and plunged. Like a hooked fish she flung herself in the air, quivering from bow to stern. No longer was David of a mind to sue the filbusterers if they did not put him ashore. If only they had put him ashore, in gratitude he would have crawled on his knees. What followed was of no interest to David, nor to many of the filbusterers, nor to any of the Cuban patriots. Their groans of self-pity, their prayers and curses in eloquent Spanish rose high above the crash of broken crockery and the pounding of the waves. Even when the searchlight gave way to a brilliant sunlight the circumstances was unobserved by David. Nor was he concerned in the idlings brought forward by the youth in the golf cap, who raced the slippery decks and vaulted the prostrate forms as sure-footedly as a hurdler on a cinder track. To David, in whom he seemed to think he had found a congenial spirit, he shouted joyfully: "She's fired two blanks at us!" he cried; "now she's firing cannon balls."—From "Blood Will Tell," by Richard Harding Davis, in the August Scribner. Negro Rural Improvement AND KINDRED TOPIC ENGAGE ATTENTION OF HAMPTON NEGRO CONFERENCE Problems Discussed White and Colored Death Rat's; Negro Population and Iliteracy; Raising Money for Schools, Public Health; and Cultivation of Corn. --- Hampton, Va., July 19.—Yearly the leaders of the colored race in agriculture, education, sanitation, and public welfare, gather at Hampton Institute and in open conference and discuss the present-day worth-while problems of the Negro race in the light of knowledge and with open hearts and minds Problems Discussed. The sixteenth annual Hampton Negro Conference, held on July 17 and 18, dealt with the following vital subjects: Work of Industrial Supervisors in Virginia; Progrss in Rural Schools; Negroes and the Census of 1910; White and Colored Death-Rates; Negra Population and Illiteracy; Negroes in Virginia; Organization Work Among Virginia Negroes; Management of Boarding Departments; Raising Money for Schools; Cultivation of Corn; Public Health; Mini-ter and Community; Recreation and Amusement; Movement of Negroes to the Cities. Negro Rural Improvement. There are now seventeen colored teachers at work in eighteen counties of Virginia, under the direction of Hampton Institute, trying to secure the more complete co-operation of parents, ministers, and teachers in improving school life. These workers are carrying on school-demonstration work which is giving new life and fresh hope to many neglected country districts. Jackson Davis Richmond, Va., supervisor of the rural elementary schools of Virginia read the following summary of the industrial supervisor's work in Virginia: Work was carried on in eighteen counties. Negro schools in these counties 469; schools visited regularly, 299; average length of school term, six months; schools extending term, 121; average length of extension, one month. Nine buildings were erected at a cost of $5,200; twelve buildings were enlarged at a cost of $1,068.15; buildings painted, 12; buildings whitewashed, 69; sanitary outhouses built, 37. There are in these counties 348 improvement leagues; 121 schools have introduced individual drinking cups. The Negroes in these counties, gave in cash, some $13,744.16 for buildings improvements, lengthening terms, industrial materials, etc. Negroes And Census of 1910 Dr. Thomas Jesse Jones, specialist in community work, U. S. Bureau of Education, Washington, D. C., and an active worker in Negro 'uplift at Hampton Institute and elsewhere, explained, with the aid of charts and a pamphlet that he had prepared for the Conference, the phases of significant progress that the colored people have made from 1900 to 1910. Copies of Dr. Jones' article may be had by writing to the Publication Office, Hampton Institute, Virginia. Today, Negroes in the South cultivate 1,000,000 acres. Forty per cent of all agricultural workers in the South are Negroes. The total value of land and buildings on farms owned or rented by the colored farmers of the South is almost a billion dollars. Negro illiteracy has dropped from 44 per cent, in 1900 to 30 per cent, in 1910. The Negro rate of increase in population, 11.3 per cent, is equal to that of European countries securing their increases by the number of births over deaths. Negroes in The City. Dr. George E. Haynes, who is the director of the National League on Uyban Conditions among Negroes, New York, and is connected with the Social Science Department of Fisk University, spoke on the "Movement of Colored People to the City." He gave the following causes; Divorce of the Negro from the soil; growth of commercial and industrial centers; legislation affecting city and urban conditions, relations of tenant and landlord, influence of employment runners in the South, exaggerated stories of success, restlessness. The remedy lies in keeping the people on the land by improving farming, in co-operating with organizations that point out the disadvantages and dangers of city life, and in helping the Negro to adjust himself to his new environment "in town." NEBRASKANS MEET JULY 31 Lincoln, Neb. July 23. A call was issued today for a third party state convention to be held at Lincoln, July 31, to select eight delegates to the Roosevelt National Convention at Chicago. Des Molues, Iowa, July 23.—Delegations to the Roosevelt State Convention, which opens tomorrow, began arriving here this afternoon. It was expected that by night fully 50 percent of the delegates would be present to participate in caucuses and conferences. It was stated to be practically certain that no third state ticket would be placed in the field by tomorrow's convention. WHO WILL TELL TAFT NOW? Omaha, Neb., July 23.—Nathan Merriam, one of the delegates at large from Nebraska to the Republican National Convention today declined to act as member of the committee to notify President Taft of his renomination. Mr. Merriam says he was elected a Roosevelt delegate because of his strong position against Canadian reciprocity. ROOSEVELT FORCES WIN Omaha, Neb., July 23.—The Nebraska State Republican Convention next Tuesday will be dominated by Roosevelt forces, according to returns from the 40 counties which have already held conventions. From these counties Roosevelt is given 226 delegates; Taft 108, doubtful 18 and contested 113, the latter being from two counties in which the delegates were appointed by the county committee and no convention held. AND WINTER COMING ON. Washington, July 23.—Francis W. Bird, appraiser of customs at New York, resigned today. In his letter to Secretary MacVeagh Mr. Bird says he quits his office to join Colonel Roosevelt's new party. ALABAMA MOOSERS Birmingham, Ala., July 25.—Twenty-four delegates, each with half a vote, were elected to the Chicago Progressive convention at the state convention of national progressives here. The convention was constituted by 150 white men, who, after a spirited debate, ignored the 17 Negroes, who had entered the hall. The Negro progressives met and elected a full contesting delegation to the Chicago convention. The "lily white" convention endorsed Colonel Roosevelt and woman's suffrage, but disapproved of a suggestion that, Judge Lindsey, a Denver, be endorsed for the vice presidency. DELEGATES TO CHICAGO Baltimore, July 25.—The Maryland progressive Republicans elected 16 delegates with half a vote each and a like number of alternates to the national progressive convention at Chicago. Resolutions were adopted empowering a committee of seven to select eight presidential electors independent of those named on the regular Taft ticket, and declaring that no elector now on the Taft ticket shall be placed on the progressive ticket unless he first resigns. The significance of this latter clause lies in the fact that six of the existing electors on the Republican ticket are Roosevelt men. Opposition to the proposal for independent electors came mainly from western Maryland delegates, the Republican stronghold, who contend that to cut loose entirely from the Republican party would weaken the chances for the success of local candidates. They were outvoted, however. WANTS FACILITIES TO HANDLE BIG CROP Calgary, Olta., July 25—Representatives of the grain growers and commercial interests of Alberta appeared before the Dominion railway commission sitting here today and presented a formidable array The WEST·VIRGINIA COLORED INSTITUTE OFFERS THREE LITERARY COURSES ENGLISH, ACADEMIC, NORMAL A HIVER SCENE AT INSTITUTE! Various Industrial Courses are Offered. Climate Healthful. Surroundings Good. CATALOGUE FREE ADDRESS BYRD PRILLERMAN, President Institute, West Virginia ARE YOU WORKING FOR MONEY? OR IS YOUR MONEY WORKING FOR YOU? If you are working and saving your money and putting it in a bank where you get no interest, keeping it in a trunk or hiding it some where about your house—You Are Working for Money. If you are working and saving your money and investing it in a safe way, where it will be working day and night whether you are working or not, and making you at least six per cent. Interest—Your Money is Working For You. The Pythlan Mutual Investment Association was organized in order to give us an opportunity to put the money we could save together and then put it to work. The above is a picture of our building on the Capitol Square in Charleston. We have just purchased a splendid three story brick building on one of the main business streets in the city of Huntington. The first door is occupied by the Huntington Herald, the largest daily newspaper published in that section of the state, the second floor is used for office rooms, while the third floor is a large assembly and lodge hall. This building is sure to pay us well. After the Charleston building had been occupied only eight months our stockholders were paid a dividend of six per cent. Stock is still on sale at $10.00 per share, either paid up or on the installment plan. Ask your agent in your locality about it or write to this office. LET YOUR MONEY WORK FOR YOU PYTHIAN MUTUAL INVESTMENT ASSOCIATION L. O. WILSON, PRESIDENT WESTON, W. VA of figures in support of the demand for increased railway, and elevator facilities for handling the wheat crop this year. Alberta expects another bumper crop this year and it is desired to avoid the car congestion which resulted in a costly delay in moving last year's crop to the Eastern markets. WANT TO MAKE MONEY? It was announced this morning that a limited amount of stock in amounts of from $25 to $2,500, one dollar a share, in the Consolidated Amusement Company of Charleston, will be sold, giving the stockholders the control of the company. The business of the concern will be done strictly on the co-operative plan. The investment will pay at least 25 percent, for the promoters of the concern have purchased the finest of equipment, have arranged to get only high class shows, and already have more than 100 persons in Charleston interested in the venture. WISCONSIN KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Prairie du Chien, Wis., July 27 Delegations from cities and towns throughout Wisconsin are here for the annual State convention of the Knights of Columbus. Today was given over principally to the recep- tion of the visitors. The delegates will attend religious services tomorrow and on Monday the chief business of the convention will be transacted. Glasgow, July 27. A large party of Scottish school teachers sailed on the Allan llan Scandinavian today for Quebec. The pedagogues plan to spend two weeks in Canada seeing the country and studying its educational methods. The places to be visited include Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Nlagara Falls and Hamilton. A FAVORITE WITH THE FAIR Little Bob Carr, or to be more explicit, Robert Studor Carr, is receiving the attention of members of the fair sex very early in life, and that, too, without the formality of an introduction, but being just like his grandpa, he seems to enjoy the experience. This morning, Robert Junior received a postcard, couched carefully is select expressions, from a young woman over in Middletown, Ohio, and the way she got his address recalls the visit here of Paul Peck, the aviator, and the exhibit of his Wright blplane at the establishment of Barrett Shipley and Company. Scores of persons who saw the machine while it was being shown at the store wrote their names thoreen and that of the Carr chap was among them, having been written by someone who wields a better pencil that does the pride of "The House on the Hill." - Hot Weather Goods at - : Zero Prices : UR MID-SUMMER CLEARANCE SALE ENDS JULY 20th. THE HIGH QUALITY GOODS WE ARE OFFERING AT THE REMARKABLE LOW PRICES WHICH WE ARE QUOTING BELOW NEED NO FURTHER ARGUMENTS. SEE OUR WINDOW DISPLAY, AND NOTE THE PRICES BELOW. FOR CASH ONLY. FRANKENBERGER & CO. Always Reliable. Governor's Statement (Continued from page one.) growing and prosperous commonwealth. But if the Republican party had done nothing more, the foregoing are sufficient to appeal to the conscience and intelligence of every voter of the state and command the support of all who believe in a continuation of policies that insure the greatest good to the greatest number. "At the primary election of June 4, last, we nominated a state ticket that is as clean, honest and able as any party has ever presented for the suffrages of our voters. The ticket is made up of men who are in sympathy with all the good things that have been done by the party, and some of our candidates were leaders in the movements that secured the progressive measures that have been enacted. And they are also men who are in sympathy with the progressive ideas of the present day, and stand pledged to the enactment of progressive legislation, such as primary election law, a public service commission, and other measures to which we stand pledged in our state platform adopted at Huntington on May 16, last, the most progressive declaration of any party in the history of the state. So that, whatever our differences may be with respect to the national ticket, no good Republican can have any valid excuse for not voting for every man on our State ticket. And we have also nominated excellent congressional and local candidates. So far as I know they are entitled to and will receive the hearty support of every Republican. party will be organized in this State, and if this is done I earnestly hope that it will endorse the present electoral, State, congressional and local candidates; and I cannot believe that any one who is a friend to these candidates and who fully comprehends the calamity that would follow a Democratic victory in this State, will object to these candidates receiving the endorsement and support of any party For Registration Law. "A Democratic victory in West Virginia means a registration law that will disfranchise thousands of legal voters; it means a redistricting of the State that will have but one object in view namely, a gerrymander that will strike the hardest possible blow at the Republican party and give to the Democrats an unfair advantage in the election of members of the House of Delegates, State Senators and members of the House of Representatives. It means that we will again witness auction and sale of United States senatorships to the highest bidder. Democratic success also means the repeal of our present tax laws and a going back to the days of a thirty-five cent state levy in place of the present one cent. levy. If any one doubts this last statement, let him read the bill presented at the last regular session of the Legislature by Senator and ex-Governor MacCorkle, the leader of his party in the Legislature, and let him observe the platforms and the expressions of the leading Democratic newspapers. "I have noticed a disposition on the part of some Republicans to read out of the party every man who wavers in his support of the National ticket. By what authority do they say who are Republicans and who are not? Who constituted them the keepers and We Strive to Please. guardians of the consciences, intelligence and patriotism of the Republican voters of the State? It would be well for them to remember that a man can become a member of the party without the aid or consent of any individual or set of individuals, and he can remain in the party just as long as he pleases, it matters not who may object to his membership. To Support State Ticket, But So far as I am concerned I am going to give to the State, Congressional and local candidates nominated by the Republican party the best support of which I am capable, and I shall do this in cooperation with the regular Republican organization and as a member of that party. "There are many honest men who do not believe in and who disapprove the means and methods used to name the nominee of the Republican convention recently held at Chicago, and I share with them in their belief and disapproval. They are men who have always supported the Republican ticket because they believed in the principles of the party and have conscientious convictions as to the best methods of serving their country. They will stand for all the good things the party has ever done and have not lost faith in its future, but their consciences rebel at the thought of upholding the acts of a few bosses who would murder the party in order that such bosses may control legislation and become the absolute dictators of our destiny as a political organization. Dr. Hatfield, our nominee for governor, and his associates on the State, congressional and local tickets who were nominated at a primary election and who received a large majority of the legal Republican votes of the State, should be loyally supported by every Republican. But between men THE ADVOCATE. FOODS WE ARE OFFERING TO FURTHER ARGUMENTS. EASY. UNION SUITS 2.50 quality ... $2.00 1.00 quality ... 1.50 1.50 quality ... 1.20 1.00 quality ... .75 HOLEPROOF SOX A 6 months guarantee e Silk ... .55 e Lisle ... .35 e Lisle ... .25 e Lisle ... .18 PLAIN SILK HOSE 50e QUALITY 40e BATHING SUITS 20 PER CENT. REDUCTION CHILDREN'S WASH SUITS 20 PER CENT. REDUCTION TOYS' KNEE PANTS 20 PER CENT. REDUCTION & CO. to Please. thus fairly nominated and men who were nominated by strong-arm, steamroller methods, we not only have a right to distinguish, but it is our duty to do so. He serves his party best who serves it most honestly, and who denounces wrong doing under all circumstances and without regard to who may be the wrong-doer or the beneficiary of the wrong. "The Republican party stands for government 'of the people, for the people and by the people,' and it does not now and never will stand for a government by the bosses. It holds that all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people "There are unfortunately men in public and private life, who, for selfish ends and sordid purposes, would defeat needed beneficial legislation; who would debauch legislatures to secure office and special privileges; who, in National, State, county and municipal affairs would filch the public funds, debauch the electorate, and, by device, deceive the people. They would supplant honesty with dishonesty in political affairs; in short be masters rather than servants of the people. Such men are not Republicans, and such methods are not Republicanism. For such men, methods and conduct the real Republican party does not stand, nor will it permit such men; masquerade in its name. "In the language of Abrabam Lincoln, I would say: 'Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the government, nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we undersand it.'" Political Situation (Continued from Page One.) not desert the regularly nominated candidates for President even though a large number of supposed friends in the state have done so. It is known that the national committee intends to remove those members of the committee who will not pledge their allegiance to the Taft ticket and select loyal Republicans in their place. It would not be surprising therefore if the national committee seeing the failure of the state committee to protect Mr. Taft's interests would step in and make some kind of arrangements by which the Taft men in West Virginia may record their votes for him in the November election without voting at the same time for koosevelt electors. Slaughter is Elected (Continued from page one.) Rann, of Macdonald, grand secretary; J. M. Ellis, Oak Hill, relief secretary, and R. H. Trent, Hinton, grand treasurer, were all retained in office without contests. The report of the grand master showed that the numerical strength of the order was materially increased, and its financial status very satisfactory, a balance of over $750 remaining in the treasury after the payment of all indebtedness. The secretary of the relief committee, J. M. Ellis, reported $455 in the fund to which all the lodges contributed for the education of the children of deceased members and the support of those members who are dependent because of age or illness. He recommended the establishment of an endowment department in connection with his office, and several other innovations which are now under consideration. Memorial services were held at Simpson M. E. church, last night, and the following program was rendered: Hymn; scripture lesson, Rev. J. S. Carroll; invocation, Rev. J. W. Robinson; solo, Mrs. Edward Lewis; general remarks, A. P. Straughtier; organ solo, Mrs. J. S. Carroll; resolutions of condolence; selection, choir; sermon, Rev. J. E. Pryor grand chaplain; solo, Theodore Henderson; benediction. The session this morning will adjourn at noon, by which time the work of the session will be finished. The delegates and their friends will go to Institute in the afternoon for an outing and the installation of officers. Huntington was selected as the place for the meeting of the 1913 session. Collapse of Bosses (Continued from Page One.) from this state to the convention. The delegates will stop off at that city on the way to the Chicago convention. Colonel Roosevelt said he expected to go to Point of Pines, near Boston, next month to address a mass meeting of the National Progressive party of New England. The date tentatively selected is August 17. The Colonel said he would leave for the Chicago convention on Saturday of next week. The sexes are about equally represented in Norway's ten normal schools. In American schools of the same class, women outnumber the men more than 3 to 1. Italy is increasing her annual expenditure for education by over 30 per cent., according to the budget reported for 1912-13. The sum is 140,405,458 lire (about $28,000,-000.) Swedish gymnastics still retain their international favor. A conference recently held in Buenos Ayres provided for a still further development of the art in Argentina. School authorities of Leipzig, Germany, are fighting the smoking habit among school children. It is reported that in one school 80 per cent of the pupils smoked, in another 74 per cent., and in still another 84 per cent. Crowded conditions in public schools are not confined to American cities. In Upper Austria 110 teachers in all-day schools have 80 to 90 pupils; 51 teachers have 90 to 100 pupils; and nineteen teachers have more than 100 pupils under their charge, according to information received at the United States Bureau of Education. The idea of sending teachers to other countries for observation and study continues to spread. Sweden has recently dispatched to various other countries at public expense 21 elementary teachers, 11 women teachers of infant schools, 4 normal school-teachers, and 9 teachers in high schools. Italian school children trained in the "Children's Houses" under the new Montessori method are said to have become "frenzied with joy" at finding they could write. The children learn to write in incerdibly short time under the new method, two or three months often being sufficient for the smallest of the tots. Everything in Fresh Vegetables, Staple and Fancy Groceries. A. N. EAGAN JEWELER 806 QUARRIER ST. CHARLESTON, W. VA. RIGHT PRICES ON DIAMONDS, WATCHES, CLOCKS AND JEWELRY FINE WATCH REPAIRING A SPECIALTY NEW AND SECOND-HAND FURNITURE WE CAN ALWAYS SAVE YOU MONEY ON HOUSEHOLD GOODS WE EXCHANGE NEW FOR OLD CLOXTON'S STORE 601 Kanawha St. Charleston, W. Va. Wanted! 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Napier has gone to Owensboro, Ky., to address the Chautauquan, now in progress in that enterprising city. The National Civil and Political League of America, which met here last week, unanimously endorsed Taft and Sherman as the candidates whose election offered the best results for the Negro, Rev. S. L. Corrothers presided. J. Finley Wilson is pledged sufficient support to elect him National Grand Organizer of the Elks, who will hold their Grand Lodge session next month at Dayton, Ohio. Hon. Carmi A. Thompson, formerly secretary of state of Ohio, and more recently assistant secretary of the Interior, has been appointed secretary to President Taft, succeeding the Hon. Charles D. Hiles who has become chairman of the Republican National Committee. The selection is regarded as an admirable one from every point of view, and it is expected that Mr. Thompson will be of great help to his chief in the coming campaign. The colored people, many of whom have been aided through Mr. Thompson's influence in high places, are particularly pleased with the appointment. The latchstring at the White House is sure to be hanging on the outside for the colored brother as long as Carmi Thompson is "on the job." Led by Col. Henry Lincoln Johnson, a large delegation of prominent colored men, among them a number of the members of the sub-committee of management, which had just closed meeting at Philadelphia, called on President Taft last Thursday and assured him that the Negroes of the country will stand faithful to their traditions in support of the regular Republican candidate for President. The visitors were George W. Hays, of Cincinnati; W. T. Francis, St. Paul, Minn.; Harry S. Cummings, Baltimore; J. S. Noel, Montgomery, W. Va.; William Driskell, Atlanta, Ga.; B. J. Davis, Albany, Ga.; Henry Lincoln Johnson, of Georgia, Recorder of Deeds for the District, and Attorney W. L. Houston, of this city. President Taft made a fitting response to the oncomiums voiced by the visiting statesmen, and assured them of his continued interest in the welfare of the Negro people, again lauding the loyalty of the colored delegates at the critical stages of the recent Chicago convention. John E. Taylor, formerly deputy collector of customs at Wilmington, N. C., and R. R. Taylor, superintendent of industries at Tuskegee Institute, Ala., scored a big triumph last week. Through the intervention of Senator Simmons, of North Carolina, a bill was passed by Congress setting apart a tract of land adjoining the Marine Hospital at Wilmington for a colored school. The tract is in an excellent portion of the city, and its size gives ample room for expansion of the school in the future. The tract covers nine city blocks, and is valued at not less than $29,000. A $40,000 building is to be erected at once on the plot. The Messrs. Taylor engineered the entire project which secured for the colored people of Wilmington this fine school property. Many of our progressive women are at Hampton this week, attending the annual session of the National Association of Colored Women. It is expected that Mrs. Booker T. Washington will be elected president of the organization. The Mount Bethel Baptist Association will hold its thirty-sixth annual session here August 20 at the Cosmopolitan Baptist church. The revived loa branch of the National Negro Business League met Monday evening at the Y. M. C. A. building, and elected delegates to the Chicago Convention, August 21, 22 and 23. John C. Dancy is president of the organization, and Dr. Julia P. H. Coleman is secretary. The four hundred seeding members of the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church will cut the Gordian knot of dissension with the mother church by organizing the Florida Avenue Baptist Church and securing a home for themselves. Negotiations are pending for the purchase by this new congregation of the handsome Gurley Temple Presbyterian Church (white) at the corner of Florida avenue and Bohrer street, at the entrance of fashionable Le Droit Park. It is expected that Rev. J. A. Taylor, of Newport News, Va., will be called as pastor of the new congregation. Miss Sema Lawrence, a singing comedienne who made such a pro nounced hit at the Howard Theater last week, remains over, by popular request. She is one of the cleverest, most versatile and original artists now on the stage. Miss Lawrence believes the colored performer has a bright future, if he will only utilize his talents to the best advantage and keep pace with the demands of the times. Success, she says, can only be achieved by hard and constant study, and a cultivation of the pioneer habit—opening new and promising fields. Manager A. J. Thomas has placed the stock of the new Howard Theater on the market and is of the opinion that in a year and a half this $100,000 thespian temple will be the property of the colored people. The famous Griffin Sisters are drawing packed houses at Dudleys Theater this week. Miss Lillian Bradford, soubrette charmante, is also on the excellent bill. Daniel Murray's encyclopedia of Negro history is in the hands of the American Encyclopedia Company at Chicago, and will soon be ready for the libraries of the race. It will be the most thorough and comprehensive publication of the kind ever presented to the public. Senator Hoke Smith, of Georgia, objects to the presence of Negro policemen on the force in this city. He thinks the colored wielders of the baton should be replaced by "good white men." A colored policeman arrested a white Georgia boy and Hoke didn't like it. Major Arthur Brooks, for many years commanding the First Separate Battalion, National Guard of the District of Columbia, has been retired at his own request, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He leaves the service with the respect and esteem of all with whom he has had official relations. Major Brooks is military instructor of cadets in the colored high schools of Washington and is custodian of property at the White House, under a $10,000 bond. Prof. James W. Eichelberger, Jr., principal of Walters Institute, Warren, Ark., was in the city last week, the guest of his uncle, Rev S. L. Corrothers, 447 O street northwest. Prof. Eichelberger has been attending several of the Zion conferences in the interest of his school. On Tuesday evening he was the guest of honor at an informal reception at the Corrothers mansion, and the following gentlemen were invited to meet him: Judge E. M. Hewlett, W. F. Denny George F. Collins, James W. Poe, J. Louis Taylor, R. W. Thompson James L. Neill, W. D. Johnson and Joseph H. Stewart. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Corrothers, Prof Eichelberger delivered a felicitous address, and afterwards spoke to a fine audience at Galveston church. The address of Prof. Roscoe Conkling Bruce at the recent commencement of the M Street High School at the Howard Theater, was pronounced by Supt. Davidson and a number of visiting educators to have been the ablest, most comprehensive and polished deliverance they had ever heard upon any similar occasion. Our admirable assistant superintendent has a remarkable gift for oratory, and the occasion was an inspiring one. The stork visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. Morris Murray last week and left a fine baby girl. With the removal of the headquarters of the G. U. O. of O. F. to this city in February, some marked changes may take place in the workings of the business plants of the order. It is rumored that the Odd Fellows' Journal may cease to be a purely fraternal paper and be developed into a general newspaper, covering rich field offered by a population of 100,000 Negroes. In view of the fact that the District has but one paper for general news, it is possible that the sub-committee of management has at last awakened to its great opportunity to build up a great race organ, with a clientele of nearly half a million of Odd Fellows to start with. It is understood that Editor H. P. Slaughter favors the expansion of the Journal, but is willing to be guided by whatever conclusion the sub-committee reaches after the September meeting of the B. M. C. Cornellus R. Richardson, a graduate of the law department of Howard University, may hang out his shingle at Gary, Ind., the home of the Steel Trust. Prof. S. G. Atkins, secretary of Education of the A. M. Zion店 is planning to move his headquarters from Winston-Salem, N. C., to this city. George A. Sheehy, of Jacksonville Fla., and D. A. Dorsey, of Miami Fla., stopped over and saw the sights, en route homeward from the meeting of the S. C. M. of the G. U. O. of O. F., at Philadelphia. They were chaperoned by A. A. Williams, of the Odd Fellows' Journal staff. A CALL TO PRAYER Dear Women of the Churches: Baptists throughout the State are turning their thoughts and hearts to the annual meeting of the Woman's Convention which convenes in St. Albans, August 15-16, 1912. A splendid program has been prepared for this meeting, splendid in every department, but our convention will not be a success without an attendance. This attendance must depend largely on the activity and interest shown by pastors and officers of local missionary societies in selecting delegates. While many are responding to our almost frantic appeals for $2,000.00, we cannot as yet tell how the year will end. We are, therefore, all the more desirous that the St. Albans meeting should be an epoch-making event in the great and glorious work the Savior has committed to the Christian women of our denomination. At no time in the history of our convention, have we faced a more imperative need of diving guidance than we recognize in this hour of hope and expectation, when we are uniting our energies to make the year's work a success. We are most grateful to God for the privilege of helping to extend the kingdom and the outlook which demands of us a far larger measure of service. Believing unreservedly the word of God, "Call upon me, and I will answer thee and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not," we feel the need of something far deeper than mere organization. We need a deeper sense of responsibility to almighty God for the trust he has committed to us. Therefore, on July 28, 1912, let us unite in a week of courageous, definite, believing prayer. Let us pray daily that in every step we may be guided by His spirit and that we may have faith, patience, perseverance, wisdom, harmony of purpose, enlargement of vision and a new standard of consecration. REDUCED RATES TO THE W. VA. BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION C. & Q. Passenger Department, Richmond, Va., July 17, 1912. West Virginia Baptist Woman's Convention, St. Albans, W. Va., Aug. 13-16. Mrs. A. K. Dandridge, Corresponding See'y W. Va. B. W. C., Box 85, Ronceverte, W. Va. Dear Madam: Your favor of the 15th, advising that the above named convention will be held this year at St. Albans, W. Va. We will be very glad indeed to authorize the same reduction as for this meeting last year at Hinton, selling tickets on August 13, 14 and 15 with final return limit of August 18, as requested. I trust the meeting may be a successful one. Yours truly, JOHN D. POTTS, General Passenger Agent VERMONT THIRD TERMERS Put Up Presidential Electors and a Full State Ticket. Burlington, Vt., July 23.—The first state convention of the Vermont Progressive party was held here today, with 70 delegates present. A platform was adopted, and presidential electors and delegates to the National Progressive Convention at Chicago were elected. The electors chosen are: Alexander J. Cooper, Bennington; M. L. Azeitline, St. Albans; John H. Blodgett, Bellows Falls; Richard R. Hoar Barre. The following state ticket was nominated: Governor, Rev. Francis Metzar, Randolph; Lieutenant Governor M. L. Ataline, St. Albans; Secretary of State, Dr. J. W. Blake, Barton; Treasurer, H. S. Howard, Burlington; Auditor, E. W. Gibson, Brattleboro; Attorney-General, Richard R. Hoar barre. The platform favored equal suffrage, direct election of United States Senators, establishment of a parcels post-government ownership of express and telegraph companies, publicity of campaign expenses and free passage of ships through the Panama Canal. PRENDERGAST IS TREASURER New York, July 23.—Adherents of the National Progressive party in Brooklyn met tonight and perfected their organization for Kings county. Officers were chosen, Timothy L. Woodruff being elected Chairman and 16 delegates to the national convention were named. Comptroller William A. Prendergast, who will nominate Colonel Roosevelt at the coming convention, was elected treasurer of the county organization. Sayings of Sages The Great Leaders of Men Who, Because of their Wide Experience and Wisdom, Have Been Accorded Endment Positions in the History of the Nations, Are Almost unanimous in Their Demand for the Greatest Possible Personal Liberty and Freedom for the Individual. President William H. Taft, "Nothing is more foolish, nothing more utterly at variance with sound policy than to enact a law which, by reason of the conditions surrounding the communities, is incapable of enforcement. Such instances are sometimes presented by sumptuary law by which the sale of intoxicating liquor is prohibited under penalty in localities where the public sentiment of the immediate community does not and will not sustain the enforcement of the law." Thomas Jefferson Says: Thomas Jefferson Says: “Our legislators are not sufficiently appraised of the rightful limit of their power. That their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural rights and duties and take none of them from us. No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the law ought to restrain him. The idea is quite unfounded that upon entering into society we give up any natural right.” Abraham Lincoln's Wisdom: "Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance with in itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and in making crimes out of things that are not crime. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles on which our government is founded." — From a speech in Illinois Legislature. Abraham Lincoln ran a tavern in Salem, Ill., where he sold liquor. While a member of the Illinois Legislature he voted against both local option and statewide prohibition. Horatio Seymour. Elected governor of New York in 1852 and 1862, three times a member of the State Legislature and candidate for President in 1868. While governor of New York he vetoed a prohibition bill. "I owe it to the subject and to the friends of the measure to add the expression of my belief that intemperance cannot be extirpated by prohibitory laws. They are not consistent with sound principles of legislation. Like decrees to regulate religious forms or forms of worship, they provoke resistance where they are designed to enforce obedience. The effort to suppress intemperance by unusual and arbitrary measures proves that the Legislature is attempting to do that which is not within its province to enact or power to enforce. All experience shows that temperance like other virtues is not reduced by law-making, but by the influence of education, morality and religion." Theodore Roosevelt Says: "The good citizen will demand liberty for himself, and as a matter of pride he will see to it that others will receive the liberty which he thus claims as his own. Probably the best test of true love of liberty in any country is the manner in which minorities are treated in that country. Not only should there be complete liberty in matters of religion and opinion, but complete liberty for each man to lead his life as he desires, providing only that in so doing he does not wrong his neighbor. Wide difference of opinion in matters of religious, political and social belief must exist if conscience or intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth. Bitter internecine hatreds, based on such differences, are signs not of earnestness or belief, but of that famaticism which, whether religious or anti-religious, democratic or anti-democratic, is itself but a manifestation of the gloomy bigotry which has been the chief factor in the downfall of so many nations." Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, American Survived Fire Terms. "I should be glad if legislation could bar intemperance, but I have seen it tried in vain. I do not believe that sumptuary laws ever had any affect to stop abuses in any country. When I was a young man I was in the State Legislature (Pennsylvania), and moved that the sale of liquor in my district be prohibited, and motion was carried. I did not find that I thereby made one drunkard less. They only drink the more, when they had the chance. There is no other way than by moral suasion for the reformation of the world and the subjection of drunkenness." can Federation of Labor. "Experience has shown the folly of prohibition wherever it has been tried, and that saloons can be regulated by law. There is not a city in Maine where a stranger cannot go and buy all the beer or whisky he wants. There is no attempt whatever to disguise the fact that these places are operating in violation of the law." "We are apt to become dictorial when we save people. It is not right. It is well to be humble. I know of nothing that can save you but mercy. Just remember that, and remember that I am not finding fault with any other method of saving men, but officers cannot reach men's appetite. The Legislature cannot control a man's appetite. While it is well to undertake to do certain things by act of Legislature, there are things that Legislatures cannot do, and it is no use to try. Now, remember that Christ never went after a man with the city marshal, but with the grace of God. "The prohibition policy amounts to Caesarism. They believe in going ahead, right or wrong. In the states where laws have been passed prohibiting the sale of liquor the entire state early has been legislated into crime, for if it is a crime to sell liquor it is a crime to buy it, and the majority have done one or the other. So unpopular have such laws become that the method of enforcing them has become more injurious than the original evil, and the officers whose business it is to enforce them have lost the sympathy of the common people." "Forget not, I pray you, the right of personal freedom. Self-government is the foundation of our political and social institutions, and it is by self-government alone that the law of temperance can be enforced." Roger Q. Mills, Congressman and Author Mills Tariff Bill. "I opose the adoption of prohibition because it violates a fundamental principle of free government." Daniel Voorhees, American Statesman. "The holy scripture and the history of the church are alike without warrant for prohibition. And looking to the history of civilization from the days of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to the present hour, where can a nation be found of strength and progress whose people could not be trusted to regulate daily habits for themselves?" William Eustis Russell, Ex-Governor of Massachusetts. "Prohibition has been enacted in this State, thoroughly tried, and repealed by its sponsors as a confessed failure." "The contest of ages has shown that the attempt to regulate the appetite of people cannot be successful. The sooner any community appreciates that the better. No party can carry that load on its shoulders and succeed very long." Ex-Governor Malcolm W. Patterson, of Tennessee. "Prohibition is fundamentally and profoundly wrong as a governmental policy. The only law the state could enact which could properly be called a prohibition law or that could possibly reach the end said to be desired—to prevent the use of liquor—would be one which would make the use a crime." Count Leo Tolstol, Noted Author "Why should there be any prohibition of the sale of alcoholic drink? Why shouldn't I have the right to drink just what I like, provided I do it decently and not to excess? Because one person makes a fool of himself is no reason why the next person should be deprived of it. The people of America seem to be tending in a wholly wrong direction in this matter." Oliver Wendell Holmes, Noted "While advocating temperance among our people and all appropriate measures to promote it, I believe that the adoption of the proposed amendment to the constitution prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors would not accomplish its intended purpose, but would lead to the surreptious use of inferior wings and liquors." United States Senator Vect, "I am opposed to prohibition. I OUR Ice Cream Parlor STRANGERS AND TRAVELING PERSONS BEST SDA WATER ONLY 5 CTS. OUR PLANS UP-TO-DATE SERVICE IS OUR WATCHWORD THE PEOPLES' GROCERY CO. WM. H. PARKER, Manager. am opposed to it on principle. I am opposed to it notwithstanding the slurs that are made by its advocates—that every man who dares oppose it favors intemperance and is working in the saloon interest. If you cannot trust people, their individual judgment and their conscience, and their conviction after discussion, as to their health and what they shall drink, in the name of common sense how can you trust them at the ballot box with the destiny of the country? "Absolute prohibition has proven impracticable, if not a dismal failure, and there is probably as much violation of the law in those states where prohibition is widespread as there is in those states where the authorities have hesitated to enforce the present existing laws for the regulation of the liquor traffic. Prohibition is an ideal—its enthrancement in this country would indeed be a great blessing if it could be enforced. However; it is only a dream, an ideal, and for this reason it is better to have high license and proper police regulation." Bishop Hall, of Vermont. “Prohibition drives underground the mischief which it seeks to cure, making it more difficult to deal with the evil and impossible to regulate the trade, as, for instance, in the quality of liquor sold.” Bishop Brown of Arkansas. “Generally speaking, I have also this objection- to the prohibitory movement in the interest of any form of righteousness, that it is an attempt to build upon the sand and a resort to the evil of tyranny that good may be accomplished. I am profoundly convinced that the superstructure which prohibitionists are seeking to erect will not stand.” Archbishop J. I. Spaulding of Peoria "There is a law of human nature that excessive pressure brought to bear on any special form of evil results in other evil; and now when various influences are diminishing intemperance in America, there seems to be no sufficient reason for calling upon the state to prohibit the manufacturing and sale of alcoholic liquors. The less we bring the public into our private, personal and domestic affairs the freer and happier we shall be." "I have never been able to convince myself that what we call total abstinence is essential to morality. The moderate and occasional use of all alcoholic liquors is not to be condemned. In countries like France and Italy, where people as a rule drink wine, no serious harm results from the practice. Even in Rome, even at the vatican, wine is not prohibited, and as we know the papal doctors themselves prescribe it for His Holiness. Then, again, I long since came to understand that, putting aside the point of principle, it was virtually impossible to enforce a total abstinence law in a large community or in a state. The attempt to enforce such a law must consequently lead to one of the worst things—illegality or hypoerisy; possibly both."¹ Benny Ward Beecher, Noted Diviner. "If you say I ought not to drink I may agree with you, but if you say I shall not drink, I will drink and whatever I please, because that is my right." Bishop Lin's, of Newark, N. J. "Prohibition leads to the formation of clubs which cannot be controlled and which are more demoralizing than saloons." Bishop Johnson, of Texas. "I would be the last to curtail or infringe upon the rights of men engaged in the liquor traffic, for I believe that they have as much right under the law to sell liquor as I have to preach." St. Paul, Minn., July 25. The grand lodge of the International Order of Good Templars convened in St. Paul today and will continue in session until the end of the week. Delegates are in attendance from nearly all of the States of the Union and from several of the Canadian provinces. The order is the largest temperance organization in the world. Reports prepared for presentation to the convention show that the membership now exceeds 700,000, of which more than 50,000 are in the United States and Canada. Many lodges of the order exist also in England, Scotland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and India. Harry Woodfuff is to appear in a new opera next season. Florence Ziegfeld, jr., has started work on "The Follies of 1912." Corinne is soon to appear in a playlet sailed "The Dressmaker's Bill." Mrs. Brown Potter is to make her appearance upon the London stage. Frank McIntyre will be in the new musical comedy "Her left Shoulder." Lionel Walsh is to be starred by Verba & Luecher in a new play next season. Harry Clarke has been engaged as a member of the cast of "Tantalizing Tommy." Martin Harvey, the English actor, is to appear as Hamlet in London next season. A new musical comedy is called "The Love Mail," the composer is Edward Rosenbaum, jr. Richard Bennett will be under the management of the Liebler Company the coming season. Isabella Everson is now associated with Melbourne in "The Sheriff and the Widow." The Shuberts announce that they have changed the name of "The Night Birds" to "The Merry Countess." "Fanny's First Play," by Bernard Shaw, will be given in America with the original London company. Charles Frohman is to produce in September a new comedy by Coemo Hamilton, entitled "Plain Brown." Hom Lewis' season as a star in George M. Cohan's "Yankee Prince" will begin early in September in Baltimore. The publishers of David Phillips last novel, "The Price She Paid," are negotiating for its dramatization. John Cort is to produce a satirical farce called "The Richest Man in the World," by Arthur Gillespie and Collin Davis. Edwin Brandt, a member of the "Garden of Allah" company, is in summer vaudeville in a sketch entitled "Fool's Gold." "Ready Money," the farce which succeeded so well in Chicago recently, is to have a production in New York in September. Eddie Foy, heretofore one of Werba & Luescher recently. William Courtenay has been engaged by H. H. Frazee to create the principal role in James Montgomery's comedy "Ready Money", when that play opens at the Maxine Elliott Theatre, New York, on August 19. Joseph Kilgour, J. H. Bradbury, Leo Donnelly, Scott Cooper and Henry Miller, jr., will also play important parts in this comedy.